Africa-Press – Angola. The children’s parliament will reinforce the mechanisms for protecting children’s rights in the country and address the main problems of this fringe, said this Friday, in the city of Ondjiva, the vice-governor for the Political Social and Economic sector of Cunene, Apolo Ndinoulenga.
The government official spoke during a public consultation aimed at collecting contributions to enrich the draft decrees that will create the Children’s Parliament and the Central Authority for its International Adoption.
At the meeting, suggestions were also presented for the National Action Plan for the prevention and combat of sexual violence against children and the National Plan for the containment and resocialization of street children.
On the occasion, Apolo Ndinoulenga said that the four documents, in the contribution phase, demonstrate the Executive’s concern in relation to Strengthening the Protection of Children’s Rights.
He stated that these instruments, if approved, will allow for coordinated work with all actors that make up the formal and informal child protection system.
The government official highlighted that child protection requires collective participation and contribution, with a greater impact on family and religious groups and institutions.
“To put their rights first, we all need to be involved in strengthening the mechanisms that will defend and protect acts of violence within families”, he said.
Apolo Ndinoulenga highlighted that the government, through MASFAMU, is improving a set of actions that aim to provide an assertive response to children’s problems in Angola, which will result in the creation of the aforementioned parliament.
In turn, the director of the National Children’s Institute (INAC), Hélder dos Santos, highlighted the importance of the future children’s parliament in safeguarding the interests and rights of children, depending on their physical and mental condition.
The person responsible said that the protection and integral development of children constitute a major challenge, hence the need for society’s contribution to achieving this objective.
He made it known that in Cunene, the most frequent cases of violence against minors are linked to elopement, abandonment and physical aggression.
The institutionalization of the Children’s Parliament aims to legalize a process that allows the broad participation of children, in accordance with constitutional, legal and conventional precepts.
The creation of the Central Authority for the International Adoption of Children (ACAIC) will provide mechanisms for justice and legal operators to carry out their tasks quickly.
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