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Home > NIGERIA: IRIN Focus on the challenge of enforcing children’s rights

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Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 02:00
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Education [2]
Issue Number: 
88 [3]
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While Nigeria signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1991, it is yet to establish a law making the convention's provisions enforceable in its courts. A bill prepared in 1993 could not be signed into law by the then military government due to objections raised by religious groups and traditionalists. A special committee was subsequently set up to harmonise the draft with Nigerian religious and customary beliefs.

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Nigeria [6]

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