The Roles Of Human Rights And Public Complaint Commission: A Study Of Child Abuse

The Roles Of Human Rights And Public Complaint Commission: A Study Of Child Abuse

Abstract

The study examined the part of Human Rights institutions in the country in addressing the problem ofchildabuse.The ideal of this study is causes, types and goods of child abuse on the child, the family and thenation. The work is meant to draw near attention on this adding scourge and access measures ofaddressing to save the abecedarian mortal rights of the child as rooted under the NigeriaChild RightAct.In the study, the experimenter defined what child abuse is; the colorful forms of child abuse, and alsoidentified some of the causes and consequences of child abuse as a reflection of the societal problemand its impact on the life of the child. The study also estimated the extent of damages it does to theabused child and the Nigerian society. In order to gather applicable data and information on the subjectmatter, the experimenter used the questionnaire as data collection instrument, which was administeredon 200 repliers within the FCT which is the limit of the compass of the study. A tone constructedquestionnaire named Child Abuse Questionnaire( CAQ) was administered on the scholars aftervalidation. The instrument has construct validityco-efficient of0.756 and trustabilityco-efficient of0.95. The statistical fashion that was used to assay the data collected was Chi- Square distributiontest. The result of the analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between poverty andeconomic privation and child abuse in Nigeria. Also the study revealed that child abuse is still veritably current in Nigeria and also that religious and artistic influences contribute to child abuse inNigeria.The affect revealed that the Rights institutions aren’t doing enough to arrest the problem of childabuse and that the child right act isn’t working in Nigeria.

Chapter One

Background To The Study

The Collins terse wordbook defines juvenile as pertaining to the youthful or immature of youth orchildhood. This comprises the child and the adolescent. According to World Health Organization( WHO), a child falls within the age group of 0

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19 times. Some countries further include any oneless than or up to 21 times. The Nigerian labour act defines a child as those who are 16 times of ageand below but the International Labour Organization( ILO) has brought it down to individualities below15years of age. Child abuse can be defined as ‘ an purposeful or disregardful physical or emotional injury assessed on achild, including sexual botheration. ’( Garner 199910) Child abuse violates the United NationDeclaration of Human Rights, the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, espoused in1989 and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the African Child. Child abuse can be seen as situation whereby the abecedarian mortal right of a child is temperedwith. That is, the child isn’t given acceptable care and protection as it’s the responsibility of every parent to take good care of their children. This rights are right to education, religion, freedom, movement, sanctum etc. The child on utmost occasion is exposed to gratuitous difficulty and oddsinlife.Although child abuse occurs in Nigeria, it has entered little attention. This is presumably due to theemphasis placed on the further current nonage problems of malnutrition and infection. Another possible reason is the general supposition that in every African society the extended family systemalways provides love, care and protection to all children. Yet there are traditional child parenting practices which negatively affect some children, similar as purposeful neglect or abandonment ofseverely hindered children, and halves or triumvirates in some pastoral areas. With the revision of society by rapid-fire socioeconomic and political changes, colorful forms of child abuse have been linked, particularly in the civic areas. These may be considered the outgrowth of abnormal relations of thechild, parents guardians and society. They include abandonment of normal babies by unattached orvery poor maters in metropolises, increased child labour and exploitation of children from pastoral areas inurban elite families, and abuse of children in civic nuclear families by child- guardians. Preventivemeasures include provision of infrastructural installations and employment openings in the ruralareas in order to help drift of the youthful population to the metropolises. This would sustain the supportiverole of the extended family system which is fleetly being eroded.