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STREET CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

Children’s rights are the human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. The 1989 convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as “any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to children. Children’s Rights includes their right to association with both parents, human identity as well as the basic needs for physical protection, food, universal state-paid education, health care, and criminal laws appropriate for the age and development of the Child, equal protection of the Child’s civil rights, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of the Child’s care, gender, sexual orientation, disability, colour, ethnicity, or other characteristics. In this modern age, children has the right to receive maintenance, protection, and education from their parents. All children are right holders, irrespective of their economic status, race, colour, sex, language, religion,

Children Street Hawking

Children street Hawking means children carrying selling goods on their head, and moving to sell things by going from place to place asking people to buy their goods. Children street Hawkers also employs different media of advertising their products like;  buy your sweet orange, the child hawker may also decided to shout their goods names in peculiar manner and appealing to people to buy their goods. Child Street Hawking is common sight on streets in Africa cities towns, children sell products such as boiled groundnut, fruit and chips that they carry on trays balanced on their heads. According to Akintunde Akinleye (2015), children street Hawking is one of the main forms of child labor. Others include children working at building sites or on farms. There is a need for each countries around the world to make adequate provisions for education, care and protection for this group, if each nations wants to progress. Street hawking has huge implications for children physically and emo

CHILDREN ON THE STREET

Children on the street lives in unoccupied dwellings and wasteland as livelihood without the care and support of their parents. Street children spends most of their time in the streets specially in the urban areas. Street children are boys and girls under the aged eighteen who have not yet reached adulthood and they are inadequately protected and supervised or directed by responsible adults. Street children are found in many parts of the world included the developed country like the United States. These children in some parts of the world have the local names they are given. In Nigeria for instance, these children are sometimes called the Almajiri. The wandering about of these children on most streets of Nigeria has Islamic religions link. They are seen on the roads in northern parts of Nigeria begging for foods and money from one street to the other. Because of this, they are sometimes exposed to danger like accident and health challenges. Children on the street are oftentimes

THE IMPORTANCE OF PEACE AND UNITY TO A NATION

Peace and unity is the basic requirement of any nation, and every citizen of a country to feel safer, secure, and maintain a peaceful environment. If we must have peace, we must learn how to live together with mutual respect, living in harmony, and equal opportunity. Study shows peace is a stability and security and an opportunity for a nation to develop. Peace is the most important need of the human race. Unity is a vital key to create and maintain lasting peace and harmony, unity helps to promote the important notion of living peacefully together or side by side. Unity grows when we serve together in peace, teach each other, and encourage one another Peace and unity are the building blocks of any society. When there is peace and unity in a nation, there will be growth and development. The government of any nation should make every attempt to ensure peace and unity in her country. It is difficult to maintain peace and unity in a nation until each one of us is sensitized about its

MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR CHILDREN TO LIVE IN

Children have a great way of seeing the world. Children don’t just see problems, they also can see possibilities. Children have this great gift of being able to see with eyes full of wonder and hope. Study shows the world is an awfully big place, and there are accordingly a huge number of things that you can do to make it an even more incredible place for children to live in. Sometime ago, I told a friend of mine... ¨The world is becoming unbearable for humans to live in and the kids are watching¨ . And then he asked me this... ¨What can we do to make it a better place to live in? My response to his question was...  ¨Is time we start treating people awesomely, starting with people right next to us. Is time we start showing love and care to anyone no matter what they look like or where they come from, show love and care for other people no matter their color or the continent they are from. Helping anyone and making a difference in our various homes, environment, communities, s