The Promotion of Children's Rights in Zambia.

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CHILD RIGHTS IN ZAMBIA

INTRODUCTION

This study seeks to height the history of the child's right and how Zambia has positioned herself in the promotion of the rights of the child in accordance with UNCRC resolution.

All children have a right to survive, to develop to the full, and to enjoy a safe, healthy and happy childhood. They have a right to healthy physical and emotional. Development, and to live, learn and be full and respected members of the society. As infants, young children or teenagers, in Zambia and throughout the world, all children share these rights which in turn will shape their future, the future of their country, and indeed the global future.

Yet in poor countries, children face significant hurdles in securing even the most basic standards of survival and development. Compromised by poverty and ill- healthy even before birth, many children suffer the successive blows of malnutrition, inadequate schooling, poor housing and exposure to danger and harm. Such deprivation has a strong tendency to reproduce itself, as the disadvantages faced by chronically poor girls and boys reduce their opportunities and capacities as adults to provide a better start for their own children.