The impact of poverty on children s rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo

dc.contributor.advisorHansungule, Micheloen
dc.contributor.emailnicenyemba@yahoo.fren
dc.contributor.postgraduateNyemba, Nice Mpalaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-04T13:45:15Z
dc.date.available2016-05-04T13:45:15Z
dc.date.created2015-12-10en
dc.date.issued2015en
dc.descriptionDissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2015.en
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation, I examine the impact of poverty on the rights of the child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where, in spite of the country s wealth and resource capacity, the most fundamental rights guaranteed to children remain violated on a daily basis due to extreme levels of poverty. While the DRC is potentially a rich country, it has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. Basic health care and education are nothing but distant dreams to most children, thereby making realisation of the rights enshrined in legally binding international, regional and national instruments elusive. This poses a huge developmental problem not only to children but importantly to the future of the country as a whole. This necessitates looking at the factors that cause and sustain poverty in the country. Without underestimating the external causes, I figure out a range of internal causes that contribute to draining the country s resources, which incidentally impacts negatively on the realisation of the rights and welfare of the child. I illustrate with evidence from the challenges that poverty poses to the implementation of children s rights that politics in the DRC is not one that is designed with the intention to promote human rights, let alone the rights of the child. Based on these findings, I make a number of recommendations that necessitate more proactive concrete action both from the government of the DRC and other active forces in eliminating poverty and thus consequently ensure effective realisation of children s rights.en
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden
dc.description.degreeLLMen
dc.description.departmentCentre for Human Rightsen
dc.description.librariantm2016en
dc.identifier.citationNyemba, NM 2015, The impact of poverty on children s rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo, LLM Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52282>en
dc.identifier.otherD2015en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/52282
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights©2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria.en
dc.subjectUCTDen
dc.subjectBasic needsen
dc.subjectHealthcare accessen
dc.subjectSocial inclusionen
dc.subjectVulnerable populationsen
dc.subjectAccess to basic servicesen
dc.subjectPoverty alleviationen
dc.subject.otherSDG-01: No povertyen
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalitiesen
dc.subject.otherLaw theses SDG-01en
dc.subject.otherLaw theses SDG-10en
dc.titleThe impact of poverty on children s rights in the Democratic Republic of Congoen
dc.typeDissertationen

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