Millions of children are not fully protected

Every children have the right to protection. They have the right to sustain on self, to be secure, to associated with, to be heard, to receive, adequate, care and to grow up in a protective domain.A child's first line of protection should be the family. Parents or other caregivers are responsible for building a protective and loving home environment. Schools and communities are responsible for building a safe and child-friendly environment anywhere. In the family, educational Institute and community, children should be fully protected so they can survive, grow, learn and develop to their full up  budding.

All children have the right to protection and yet millions of children are not fully protected. Many of them deal with roughness,misuse,lack of concern, exploitation, disbarring and/or differentiation every day. Such violations limit their chances of surviving, growing, developing and be engaged in their dreams.

Understand the importance of child protection. In order to spread the message, it is important to know the facts. The basics are:

•  Every child should have the opportunity to grow up in own house environment. If a family is not able to care for the child, steps should be taken by the authorities to address the reasons and make every attempt  to keep the family together.

• Every child has a right to a name and nationality. Inscribing a child's birth helps to ensure a child's right to education, health care and legal and social services. Birth registration is a main step towards protection from abuse and exploitation.

• Girls and boys must be protected from all forms of violence and abuse. This includes physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect and harmful practices such as child marriage and genital mutilation/cutting of girls. Families, communities and  mastery are responsible for ensuring this protection.

• Children must be protected from all work that is insecure. Work should not prevent them from attending school. Children should never be involved in the beat forms of child labor, such as enslavement, forced labour, drug production or trafficking.

•  Girls and boys can be at risk of sexual abuse and exploitation in their home, school, workplace or community. Measures should be taken to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation. Sexually abused and exploited children need immediate help to stop such abuse.

•  Children are vulnerable to trafficking where protection for children is weak or missing. The government, civil society and families are responsible for preventing trafficking, as well as helping children who are victims to reintegrate into their families and communities, if it is in their best interest.

• Justice for children should be based on child rights. Strip children of their liberty (incarcerating them) must always be a last resort. Procedures that are sensitive to children should be put in place for children who are victims or witnesses of injustice.

•  Income support and social welfare services can help keep families together and children in school and ensure access to health care.

 All children have a right to age-proper information, to be heard and to contribution in making decisions that concern them. Fulfillments of this right enables children to take an active role in their own protection against abuse, violence and exploitation, and to become active citizens.