The Validation Workshop on the Draft Continental Study on the Impact of Climate Change on the Rights of Children in Africa, is commencing from November 3-4, 2023, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This critical event brings together experts, stakeholders, and advocates from across the continent to review and validate the findings and recommendations of a comprehensive study exploring the profound effects of climate change on the rights and well-being of African children.

The Committee holds two ordinary sessions each year. The duration of the session varies in each case from 10 to 15 days depending on needs and finance. The Secretary of the African Commission must communicate to the members the date and venue of the ordinary session at least 60 days ahead of the session.

Background

Background

The Day of the African Child (DAC) was first launched by the Assembly of Heads of State of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1991 to be commemorated annually on 16 June. The day is significant as it honours the 1976 student-led uprising in Soweto, South Africa, that resulted in the killing of numerous unarmed students and young protesters by the apartheid regime. The day is, therefore, a reminder of the costly price these children paid for demanding respect of their fundamental rights to education and freedom.

BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION 

The Working Group on Children with Disabilities in Africa of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) joins the world on this 3rd day of December 2022 to commemorate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities which is celebrated under the theme ‘Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world’.

In the past few years, there has been an increase in internet usage globally and the internet has become a key public infrastructure that has the potential to connect people,

The African Committee of Experts on the Right and welfare of the Child's Working Groups Meeting is taking place from 21-22 November ahead of the highly anticipated 40th Ordinary session of the committee.