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Publié le 27 mars 2008
Traductions disponibles en : français (original) . Español .

Senegalese children bring song to the Charter and children’s rights

par Sidiki Abdoul DAFF
Thèmes forts liés : Education et responsabilité .
Thèmes généraux liés : Enfants . Droits de l’Homme .

Day of the African Child

On 16 June 2007, CERPAC together with a young people’s group organized a children’s ceremony awarding the best students from a neighborhood in Guédiawaye (a town in the Dakar Region of Senegal). The date was not chosen at random : the Day of the African Child has been celebrated on 16 June every year since 1991, to commemorate the massacre of hundreds of children during a protest march in Soweto (South Africa) by the apartheid government on 16 June 1976. The day has a different theme every year :
- 2005 : African orphans : our collective responsibility ;
- 2006 : Protecting children against violence ;
- 2007 : Combat child trafficking. Since this is a phenomenon that does not exist in Senegal, we focused our ceremony on children’s rights. The children spent several hours rehearsing sketches and a rap version of the Charter of Human Responsibilities :

To perform for their parents on 16 June (extract) :

The children’s choir also sung the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, an international text setting out children’s rights :

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