Protect Children’s Rights to Secure Nation’s Future

Protect Children’s Rights to Secure Nation’s Future

An op-ed in The Citizen, published in Johannesburg, South Africa, urges protection of children from being exploited for harsh labor at a young age, a common practice in some African countries.

“As the future of humanity, children do have inalienable rights, and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) sets out what those rights are.” A country’s future is threatened when its children aren’t protected, it states. See News Article