Abstract
On the back of the 1979 UNESCO Year of the Child, the Assembly of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) adopted a Declaration on the Rights and Welfare of the African Child. This chapter considers the normative, as well as institutional framework of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRCW), focusing specifically on the work of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (the African Committee of Experts). The ACRWC was adopted on 11 July 1990, less than eight months after the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The achievements of the African Committee of Experts are modest and need to be seen against the backdrop of a lack of funding and institutional support by the OAU/AU and an absence of political will on the part of States to engage with the Committee. Keywords:ACRCW; African Committee; CRC; OAU; rights of child; welfare of child
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