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Child Rights Campaign
"No violence against children is justfiable & every violence against children is preventable"
Child Rights are fundamental freedoms and the inherent rights of all human beings below the age of 18. These rights apply to every child, irrespective of the child's, parent's / legal guardian's race, colour, sex, creed or other status.
The essential message is equality of opportunity. Girls should be given the same opportunities as boys. All children should have the same rights and should be given the same opportunity to enjoy an adequate standard of living.
Why are child rights important?
Children are innocent, trusting and full of hope. Their childhood should be happy and loving. Their lives should mature gradually, as they gain new experiences. But for many children, the reality of childhood is altogether different. It’s estimated that about 64.82 deaths/1000 live births (2009 estimate) in Uganda will die before they celebrate their first birthday.
Right through history, children have been abused and exploited. They suffer from hunger and homelessness; work in harmful conditions, high infant mortality, and deficient health care and limited opportunities for basic education. A child needs not to live such a life. Childhood can and must be preserved. Children have the right to survive, develop, be protected and participate in decisions that impact their lives.
What are child rights?
At JFCU, Promotes the four guiding principles of The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Non-discrimination, The best interests of the child, Survival, Development and Protection and Participation
JFCU and Child rights
At JFCU, we believe that children are citizens in their own right, entitled to the full spectrum of human rights. Our children will only attain these rights guaranteed to them if each one of us believes this should be so and exercises all the power at our command – as parents, neighbors, consumers, employees, businesspeople, teachers, politicians, journalists, professionals, bureaucrats, activists and most importantly as citizens – to make this a reality.
JFCU’s role is to amplify the voice of Ugandan children to reach large numbers of people and enlist their support for this cause by speaking out, demanding, negotiating as required with the relevant government or other authorities for the rights of children.
Our work of child rights promotion is rooted in the ideology of puncturing the belief that sustains the unjust way of relating with children at all levels.
It also creates the infrastructure for dissenting opinions to be aired, views to be exchanged, values to be discussed and new ways of behaving to be explored.
We also believe that a proactive catalyzing community based work is needed to win hearts and minds of individuals and respond to concerns of a wide range of children.
The nature of this engagement employed is diverse, participatory and based on persuading individuals that just relationship with children is in everyone’s interest.
We believe that only when enough of us take a stand for child rights will we actually build Uganda where all children are treated as citizens with equal rights guaranteed to them in the Constitution of Uganda.
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Joy for Children Uganda
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P.O Box 15383
Kampala (Uganda)
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Telephone:
+256 414 530 450
+256 414 380 417
+256 712 982 301
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Email:
info@joyforchildren.org
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