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Action to Strengthen Indigenous Child Protection Mechanisms in West Africa to Prevent Migrant Children from Being Subjected to Abuse

Document number
1443
Date
2007
Title
Action to Strengthen Indigenous Child Protection Mechanisms in West Africa to Prevent Migrant Children from Being Subjected to Abuse
Author/publisher
Mike Dottridge, Olivier Feneyrol
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Missing children, Internal trafficking, Forced labour, Identification, Domestic servitude, Sexual exploitation, Private fostering, Forced marriage, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships:
Summary
The article aims to suggest ‘alternative’ ways of preventing children from being trafficked, as conventional approaches in West Africa are flawed. The alternatives ways are build on practices which have strong legitimacy at local/popular level, rather than imposing ‘top down’. The article advocates for a model of prevention based on indigenous practices, community participation and protection mechanisms.
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