Enfin le Children’s Bill

Le gouvernement va présenter en première lecture le 17 Septembre 2019,le projet de loi concernant les enfants qui était attendu depuis des longues années.

Cabinet has agreed to the introduction of the Children’s Bill into the National Assembly. The main object of the Bill is to repeal the Child Protection Act and replace it with a more appropriate, comprehensive and modern legislative framework so as to better protect children and to give better effect to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. The Bill accordingly makes provisions:

(a) for the better care, protection and assistance to children and their families;

(b) for the respect and promotion of the rights and best interests of children;

(c) for the setting up of structures, services and means for promoting and monitoring the sound, physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional and social development of children;

(d) for children under the age of 12 not to be held criminally responsible for any act or omission;

(e) for child witnesses and child victims under the age of 14 to be, subject to certain conditions, competent as witnesses without the need for them to take the oath or making solemn affirmation;

(f) for the setting up of a Children’s Court, which shall consist of a Civil Division, a Protection Division and a Criminal Division; and

(g) for addressing the shortcomings in the Child Protection Act.

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