Action to Strengthen Indigenous Child Protection Mechanisms in West Africa to Prevent Migrant Children from Being Subjected to Abuse
- Document number
- 1443
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Action to Strengthen Indigenous Child Protection Mechanisms in West Africa to Prevent Migrant Children from Being Subjected to Abuse
- Author/publisher
- Mike Dottridge, Olivier Feneyrol
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Missing children, Internal trafficking, Forced labour, Identification, Domestic servitude, Sexual exploitation, Private fostering, Forced marriage, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships:
- Summary
- The article aims to suggest ‘alternative’ ways of preventing children from being trafficked, as conventional approaches in West Africa are flawed. The alternatives ways are build on practices which have strong legitimacy at local/popular level, rather than imposing ‘top down’. The article advocates for a model of prevention based on indigenous practices, community participation and protection mechanisms.
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