Children's rights Africa
Kinderrechte Afrika e.V. is a children's rights organization that is committed to the implementation and protection of the basic rights of children and young people on the African continent. The non-profit registered association based in Lahr / Black Forest was founded in 1995. There are 5 salaried employees and 3 volunteers.
Its work is based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter for the Rights and Welfare of the Child . The aim of the association is to contribute to a social environment that protects children's rights in Africa.
The association sees its main work in advocacy and work with children in need, whose rights have been disregarded. There are 22 voting members. The orientation is Christian.
Current projects
Benin
- Prevention of Sexual Violence
- Promotion of fundamental rights in child protection centers
Cameroon
- Improving the conditions of detention of children in prisons and police custody and avoiding the delinquency of street children
- Prevention of Sexual Violence
Mali
- Promotion of the legal status of domestic help
Togo
- Modernizing juvenile justice and child protection (including the “Children are not witches” campaign)
Previous projects
Democratic Republic of Congo
- Rehabilitation and reintegration of child soldiers and children as victims of armed conflict
- Rehabilitation and social reintegration of children accused of witchcraft (see witch child )
- Protection and improvement of the conditions of detention of children in prisons and police custody
- Development of an environment that protects children's rights in Kinshasa and the two Kasai provinces
Ivory Coast
- Protection and social reintegration of children in prisons and police custody
- Protection and promotion of young domestic helpers in safeguarding their rights
- Protection and reintegration of children with disabilities
- Psychosocial support for “street children” and family repatriation
Guinea
- Protection and social reintegration of children in prisons and police custody
Cameroon
- Psychosocial support for imprisoned mothers as well as early support for their young children in prisons
- Psychosocial support for “street children” and family repatriation
Mali
- Enforcement of the fundamental rights of victims of economic and sexual exploitation, especially girls
- Protection and social reintegration of children in prisons and police custody
- Establishment of an environment that protects children's rights in Bamako and the regions of Sikasso, Ségou, Mopti and San
Senegal
- Protection and improvement of the conditions of detention of children in prisons and police custody
Togo
- Modernizing juvenile justice and child protection (including the “Children are not witches” campaign)
- Protection and improvement of the conditions of detention of children in prisons and police custody
- Protection and promotion of porters and their children
Web links
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- Annual report 2012, PDF file
- Together for Africa
- News from Kinderrechte Afrika eV
- Eiland-Jung, Juliana: Looking for a partner school for Cameroon. In: Badische Zeitung. 2011. PDF file
- The north is too dangerous for us. Interview with Horst Buchmann. In: Badische Zeitung. 2013. PDF file
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.kinderrechte-afrika.org/%C3%BCber-uns/wie-wir-arbeiten/
- ↑ http://www.dzi.de/spenderberatung/datenbanksuchmaske/suchverbindungen/1/?typ=alle&keyword=kinderrechte&bereiche=alle&laender=alle&sitz=alle
- ↑ https://www.kinderrechte-afrika.org/%C3%BCber-uns/wie-wir-arbeiten/
- ↑ http://www.dzi.de/spenderberatung/datenbanksuchmaske/suchverbindungen/1/?typ=alle&keyword=kinderrechte&bereiche=alle&laender=alle&sitz=alle
- ↑ https://www.kinderrechte-afrika.org/projekte-partner/aktuelle-projekte/