Law and Children's Rights Protection: The Nexus for a Sustainable Development in Nigeria/LE DROIT ET LA PROTECTION DES DOITS DES ENFANTS: LA LIAISON POUR UN DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE AU NIGERIA
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Abstract
Abstract: Every human society, no matter how primitive it may look, is governed by a code of laws. These laws give order and meaning to their lives and serve for social control and overall development of the society. Some societies deny their citizens especially women and children, their natural and civil rights because they believe that the rights of women and children are adequately protected by their husbands and fathers. But the inhuman treatment meted out to women and children even by their husbands and fathers have brought to the fore the errors and problems of taking for granted the protection of the rights of women and children in the society. This paper therefore examines the dangers posed by taking the rights of children for granted in the society and efforts being made in Nigeria to protect the child for the overall and sustainable development of the society. Key words: child; rights; survival rights; development rights; participation rights; protection rights Resume: Toutes les societes humaines, quelle que soit son apparence primitive, est regie par un code de lois. Ces lois donnent un ordre et un sens a leur vie et servent de controle social et du developpement global de la societe. Certaines societes negligent les droits naturels et civils de leurs citoyens, en particulier les femmes et les enfants, parce qu'elles pensent que les droits des femmes et des enfants sont suffisamment proteges par leurs maris et leurs peres. Mais les traitements inhumains infliges aux femmes et aux enfants, voire par leurs maris et les peres ont mis en evidence les erreurs et les problemes de considerer que les droits des femmes et des enfants dans la societe sont proteges. Le present article examine donc les dangers poses de considerer les droits des enfants comme acquis dans la societe et les efforts deployes au Nigeria, a fin de proteger l'enfant pour un developpement global et durable de la societe. Mots-cles: enfants, droits; droit de survie; droit de developpment; droit de participation; droit de protection INTRODUCTION Development must be sustainable to meet present needs and future. Sustainability safeguards development and guarantees tomorrow's needs. Development is the efficient or judicious utilization of resources (natural, human, industrial, institutional) for creating higher levels of material wealth, social well-being and individual self-fulfillment. Of paramount importance is the human factor in development, without which development is merely a mirage. Human beings are the facilitators of development, and without their children, development can never be sustainable. Thus, children must have the pride of place in every community since the child is the future pool on which the future generation is predicated. A look down the memory lane reveals that one of the greatest challenges ever faced on earth and still being faced is the need to safeguard the human factor in development. By this, we mean protecting children, giving them a future and thus making development sustainable. Today, half of the world's 2.2 billion children are threatened by poverty and HIV/AIDS (UNICEF, 2005). About 180 million are engaged in the worst forms of child labor; 1 .2 million children are trafficked every year; and the number of children who died in 2003 before they were five was 10.6 million (UNICEF, 2004). These are horrendous; and a threat to global human development. Law and development must go together since law is an essential tool for social engineering. Law can promote development and at the same time, it can inhibit it. Thus, development in any community must reflect in its laws otherwise archaic laws or the absence of a legal regime might retard development. Law must be in harmony with development and must be able to address social problems. It is pertinent to note that law, being a dynamic tool in development, has been employed at different times to protect children and their rights. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".