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African children have remained in the margins of social
research despite the fact that over forty percent of Africans are under the
age of fifteen. From the late 1990s onwards, research on children and
childhood has gradually become a topic of study in the social sciences.
Children have increasingly come into the limelight as culture makers and not
just as extensions to the study of adults. The conference 'African Children
in Focus: a Paradigm Shift in Methodology and Theory?’, which was held
on 18-19 September 2008 in Leiden, The Netherlands, aims to provide a
platform for qualitative studies on African children, paying attention to
children's own perspectives, agencies and interdependencies. The conference
is organized by the Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS).
The Library, Documentation and Information Department of the ASC has
compiled this dossier on Children in Africa to coincide with the Leiden
conference. The dossier is partly an update of our earlier dossier on
Youth
in Africa (June 2003), especially the sections on Youth and War, and Street
Children. The present dossier focuses on:
- Children and Society
- Children and Law, Children’s Rights
- Children and War, Child Soldiers
- Children and Work, Child Labour, Street Children
- Children and Health
- Child Care, Orphanhood
- Selected web resources
The dossier contains a selection of titles from the library's
online
catalogue, including monographs, articles, chapters from edited works, and
videos published in the last five years (2003-2008). Each title links
directly to the corresponding record in the online catalogue, which provides
a more detailed description of all titles as well as abstracts of articles
and edited works. The dossier ends with selected web resources on children
in Africa.
For information about the dossier, please contact the library information
desk at asclibrary@ascleiden.nl or phone: +31 (0)71 5273354.
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The ASC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
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Africa Renewal - Children
Survey of articles on children in Africa produced by the Africa Renewal
information programme (formerly Africa Recovery), created by the UN Africa
Section, Strategic Communications Division, in cooperation with the UN
Website Section, Department of Public Information.
African
Child Policy Forum
The African Child Policy Forum is an independent, pan-African advocacy
organization working for the realization of children’s rights. The work of
the Forum is rights-based, inspired by universal values and informed by
global experiences and knowledge. Based in Addis Ababa.
African
Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
draws its mandate from articles 32-46 of the African Charter on the Rights
and Welfare of the Child, which was adopted by the Heads of State and
Government of the OAU on 11th July 1990 and came into force on 29th November
1999. The site contains the text of the Charter, reports of Committee
meetings, events & activities.
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African Network for the
Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect
Pan-African network that promotes child rights and child protection in
Africa, founded in 1986 in Enugu, Nigeria, at the first Child Labour
Conference. It has national chapters in 22 African countries and is
headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.
Children’s
Institute, University of Cape Town
The Children’s Institute aims to contribute to policies, laws and
interventions that promote equality and realise the rights and improve the
conditions of all children in South Africa, through research, advocacy,
education and technical support. The Institute operates through programmes
which are based on four key challenges facing children in South Africa:
children’s rights, child health services, child poverty, and HIV/AIDS.
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour –Africa
The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
was created in 1992 with the overall goal of the progressive elimination of
child labour. Africa is a high priority for IPEC.
Institute for the
African Child, Center for African Studies, Ohio University
The children of Africa are the interdisciplinary focus of the Institute for
the African Child at Ohio University. The Institute promotes research,
teaching, and service that consider children in the process of the African
continent's socio-economic development. The site contains info on faculty
research, graduate studies, conferences, working papers, resources, etc.
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UNICEF publications, by region
Lists full text publications on Eastern and Southern Africa, West and
Central Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa, including The state of
Africa’s Children 2008
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