Africa-Press – Angola. Representative Luísa Damião presented, this Monday, 20th, in Johannesburg (South Africa), Angola’s progress in legislative matters for the protection of children’s rights.
The Angolan parliamentarian was speaking at the debate of the Commission on Human Development and Special Programs of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, which takes place under the motto “Advancing the African Union’s 2040 agenda and strengthening parliament’s commitment to legislation and policies focused on children”.
On the occasion, he informed that Angola ratified the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, on April 11, 1992, having deposited the instruments of ratification with the Secretary-General of the OAU on October 7, 1999.
Luísa Damião said that Angola, as a member state of the African Union, the United Nations and the Development Community of Southern African Countries, has ratified a set of international legal instruments on human rights, including the African Charter on Rights and Welfare. Being of the Child.
Among these, he stated that the country has ratified around 20 international legal instruments on human rights, particularly those relating to children and in line with the main international Agendas and assumed, in 2007, the 11 Commitments to Children.
In his speech, he made it known that Angolan parliamentarians remain committed to delving deeper into matters relating to the protection and promotion of children’s rights.
“As parliamentarians, we must continue to legislate so that the family continues to be the fundamental nucleus of society, which shapes the citizen of tomorrow, honest and responsible, imbued with moral, ethical, civic and patriotic values”, he highlighted.
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