Today, June 16, 2020, Tunisia celebrates the Day of the African Child which was proclaimed by the Organization of African Unity in 1991, in memory of the massacre of hundreds of children during a march to improve education in Soweto, South Africa on June 16, 1976. The event aims to recognize the rights of children on the continent and reduce Practices that target them and cause them a lot of harm and make them vulnerable to abuse.
In this context, the Ministry of Women, Family, Childhood and Seniors affirms Tunisia’s insistence on implementing its international commitments and its keenness to enshrine the principles of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child ratified on November 29, 1991, and its firm determination to move forward in supporting children’s rights and protecting them from the various dangers that threaten them and from all forms of discrimination, through awareness raising, education, training, participation, listening, dialogue, spreading children’s rights culture. This is, of course, in accordance with the principles and objectives of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and the provisions of the Child Protection Code.
The Ministry also indicates that the “Covid 19” pandemic has contributed to the exacerbation of the psychological, health, social and economic conditions of some children or some families, in addition to the disruption of administrative institutions and, consequently, the lack of care and control during the period of health confinement, which may make many of them fall under economic exploitation and human trafficking and all forms of violence.
In this context, the Ministry reiterates that all children have the same rights to protection in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 20 of the Child Protection Code, and calls on all components of society to oppose these practices and report all abuses, whether through the green number of the Ministry or at the offices of childhood representatives. It also renews its support for all childhood issues in the world, its firm determination to resist all forms of threats and discrimination, and its keenness to achieve the welfare of all children.
