Article 15
CHILD LABOUR
1.
Every child shall be protected from all forms of economic
exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be
hazardous or to interfere with the child’s physical, mental, spiritual,
moral, or social development.
2.
States Parties to the present Charter shall take all appropriate
legislative and administrative measures to ensure the full
implementation of this Article which covers both the formal and
informal sectors of employment and having regard to the relevant
provisions of the International Labour Organization’s instruments
relating to children, States Parties shall in particular:
(a) provide through legislation, minimum ages for admission to
every employment;
(b) provide for appropriate regulation of hours and conditions of
employment;
(c) provide for appropriate penalties or other sanctions to ensure
the effective enforcement of this Article;
(d) promote the dissemination of information on the hazardous of
child labour to all sectors of the community.
Article 16
PROTECTION AGAINST CHILD ABUSE AND
TORTURE
1.
States Parties to the present Charter shall take specific legislative,
administrative, social and educational measures to protect the
child from all forms of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment
and especially physical or mental injury or abuse, neglect or
maltreatment including sexual abuse, while in the care of a parent,
legal guardian or school authority or any other person who has the
care of the child.
2.
Protective measures under this Article shall include effective
procedures for the establishment of special monitoring units to
provide necessary support for the child and for those who have
the care of the child, as well as other forms of prevention and for
AFRICAN CHARTER
on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
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