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    Legal issues in adolescents’ rights under medical treatment as a constituent of right to health
    (2018-01) Ekundayo, O.S.
    The paper intends to contribute in facilitating the implementation of adolescents’ right within the myriad instances of daily decision making by the medical personnel which touch and concern the health of the adolescents. This paper has provided a comprehensive and detailed account of the law and practice of adolescents’ rights as it relates the patient, parents, and medical personnel showing that none of them has absolute power when it comes to medical treatment. It is concluded that the adolescent rights do not prevent interventions that will protect the adolescent front adverse health consequences
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    Does the African charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) only underlines and repeats the convention on the rights of the child (CRC)’s provisions?: examining the similarities and the differences between the ACRWC and the CRC
    (Center for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2015) Ekundayo, O. S.
    The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the first legally binding international instrument to address specifically children’s rights comprehensively. It is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world. The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) was adopted in 1990. It is designed to retain the spirit as well as substance of the letter of the CRC while at the same time having special provisions guided by the situations in Africa. There are several similarities in the provisions of the two child's rights instruments. The paper examines the question whether there is need for a regional treaty on the rights of the child apart from the CRC which is global. The objective of the paper is to show whether both treaties have complemented and reinforced each other
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    Does the African charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) only underlines and repeats the convention on the rights of the child (CRC)’s provisions?: examining the similarities and the differences between the ACRWC and the CRC
    (Center for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2015) Ekundayo, O. S.
    The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the first legally binding international instrument to address specifically children’s rights comprehensively. It is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world. The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) was adopted in 1990. It is designed to retain the spirit as well as substance of the letter of the CRC while at the same time having special provisions guided by the situations in Africa. There are several similarities in the provisions of the two child's rights instruments. The paper examines the question whether there is need for a regional treaty on the rights of the child apart from the CRC which is global. The objective of the paper is to show whether both treaties have complemented and reinforced each other
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    Does the African charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) only underlines and repeats the convention on the rights of the child (CRC)’s provisions?: examining the similarities and the differences between the ACRWC and the CRC
    (Center for Promoting Ideas, 2015-07) Ekundayo, O.S.
    The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the first legally binding international instrument to address specifically children’s rights comprehensively. It is'the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world. The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) was adopted in 1990. It is designed to retain the spirit as well as substance of the letter of the CRC while at the same time having special provisions guided by the situations in Africa. There are several similarities in the provisions of the two child's rights instruments. The paper examines the question whether there is need for a regional treaty on the rights of the child apart from the CRC which is global. The objective of the paper is to show whether both treaties have complemented and reinforced each other