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Chirwa (2002)
The merits and demerits of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the ChildThe International Journal of Children's Rights, 10
J. Parry-Williams (1993)
Legal reform and children's rights in Uganda - some critical issuesThe International Journal of Children's Rights, 1
Anthony Munene (2002)
The Bill of Rights and Constitutional Order: A Kenyan PerspectiveAfrican Human Rights Law Journal, 2
The domestication of international standards on the rights of the child: A critical and comparative evaluation of the Kenyan example GODFREY ODHIAMBO ODONGO Community Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa 1. Introduction Kenya ratified the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (“the Convention” or the CRC) on the 31 July 1990. 1 As the country marked its 11th year since the ratification of the Convention and one year after its ratification of the regional African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (“the African Children’s Charter”), 2 the Kenyan Parliament enacted the new Children’s Act of 2001 (“the Act”). 3 In this contribution, we trace the back- ground to the process of enacting the Act followed by an analysis of the significant developments in the Act gauged against the international law regime on children’s rights in light of the CRC and the African Children’s Charter. 2. The historical background to the Act The process leading to the enactment of the Kenyan Children’s Act can be described to have been a very laborious one dating back to 1988–1991 (Sloth- Nielsen and Van Heerden, 1997; Kabeberi-Macharia, 1996).
The International Journal of Children's Rights – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2004
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