CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Fortingo, Robert-Jacob Nujaga |
|---|---|
| Title | Children's Rights in Transitional Societies: Protection of Children's Rights in Societies in Transition |
| Summary | This thesis argues that although member states of the Convention on the Rights of Children (CRC) are required to guarantee the protection of children’s rights, the rights of children are not being protected in societies in transition due to the lack of effective institutional mechanisms that would guarantee this protection. A study of two African nations in transition will be done to demonstrate this nonexistence of effective institutional child protection mechanisms. The two countries I will look at for the purpose of this thesis are Sierra Leone and Uganda. My reason for using these two countries to make my argument is because both nations recently came out of civil conflicts in the last fifteen years and the transitional process commenced with the end of hostilities. Also, my choice of these two countries was influenced by the fact the children played a central role as child soldiers and victims in the conflicts. The transitional justice mechanisms used were different and the role former child soldiers and victims played in this process were also different in both countries. This paper will be looking at the transitional justice mechanisms in both nations, the role child soldiers and victims played in this process, and assessing the effectiveness of the institutional structures in place during the transition in guaranteeing the protection of the rights of these children as required by international and regional child protection mechanisms. |
| Supervisor | Ajevski, Marjan |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/fortingo_robert-jacob.pdf |
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