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African Governments urged to adopt Hague Conventions on children
Senior Government officials from 15 States in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region will meet in Pretoria from 23 to 25 February 2010 to determine ways to strengthen cross-border co-operation for the protection of children at risk and better regulate intercountry adoption.
The meeting will focus on the problems resulting from cross-border movements of unaccompanied minors, refugee and displaced children, as well as international abductions and trafficking in children.
According to recent research conducted by UNICEF, South Africa is home to thousands of unaccompanied child migrants, both from neighbouring countries, especially Zimbabwe and from within the country.
Although Governments have ratified the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, many countries have yet to ratify the Hague Conventions pertaining to children, which seek to standardize international law in the best interests of the child and provide a comprehensive legal framework for the cross border movement of children between countries.
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