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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...