Information Sources and Awareness Level of Child Rights in Lagos State, Nigeria
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The United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child prescribes certain rights that children are entitled to enjoy placing the responsibility of ensuring these rights on parents, guidance, government among others. Article 42 of the Convention prescribes that the pi-ovisions of the Convention should be widely known even to children themselves since the value of the information given by
children will increase as it becomes clear to them that ·what they think, feel, experience is valuable and important. This study examined the extent to which secondary school students in Lagos state are aware
of their rights and explored their views about the exercise of these rights. Through survey method, information was obtained from 500 respondents. The findings show that the respondents professed to know about the rights of the children but many ofthem (76.2%) have never heard of the United Nations CRC. Television is the most patronized source of infonnation for the respondents from which they
have received most of their information on the child rights. They also believe that they have rights and that it is the government's responsibility to make provision for meeting some of their needs like education and health. It is recommended that child rights advocates should increase their efforts in putting the rights of the child in the
public space and give information on how children can demand for the fulfillment of these rights.
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ZA4050 Electronic information resources