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Children Rights
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Immense development has been made in uplifting the living conditions of countless children worldwide. Worldwide stakeholders like The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This organization however favors westernized understanding of childhood development.
International children rights laws modeled in western understanding without understanding a people’s culture can often result into misrepresentation. In Vietnam, reports from research jointly funded by CRC and other agencies presented the possibility of street children to be returned to their homes. This resulted into Pressure on government. The Vietnamese government resorted to controlling children in the streets, rather than addressing the reason for their presence in the street. The report focused on difficulties, hard work, illness and disease. Some of these children worked in the streets and supported their families back at home or stayed in the street because it was a better place to stay in. Social economic realities are not the same everywhere in the world which forces children to make choices or be forced to live in a given way.
A majority of the non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) are legitimately working for advancements of children’s welfare have assumed the role as second guardians. They model children to grow up in a proper manner and constantly reminded about their rights. In Uganda, a Child Rights Education program run by Save the Children Denmark, trained children rights workers on how to give lectures to local children, teachers and parents on children’s rights. The children began to feel exploited and deprived of some rights through what they had learnt from CRC program. This led to Protests by local leaders and parents and even teachers because they felt that it created more conflicts than it had solved. Interference in domestic affairs by the child right workers in a culturally inappropriate way was...