Child Rights Awareness Creation Organisation (CRACO)

08

Nov

WOMEN AND CHILDREN DIE WHILE FLEEING BOKO HARAM ATTACK IN MUBI TOWN OF ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA

Joe Right to life 1 Comment

Reports reaching us has it that many children and women died in the bush from exhaustion, while they were fleeing insurgents who attacked the town of Mubi in Adamawa State, Nigeria. This is just as several families whose children got missing are still searching for them. According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), 6000 children …

01

Nov

Illegal Baby Factory Operator In Imo State uncovered, 2-day Old Baby Rescued

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

NSCDC Arrests Illegal Baby Factory Operator In Imo, Rescues 2-day Old Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a woman, Mrs Esther Akunmadu, for running an illegal baby factory and harbouring pregnant young ladies for the purpose of selling their babies after birth. Parading the suspect on Friday at the command …

01

Nov

Meet Calabar Street Children Who Eat From The Dustbin

Joe CHILD ABUSE No Comments

The peace and serenity of Calabar the Cross River State capital may soon be tested if the increase in the nefarious activities of street urchins and abandoned children who are now roaming major parts of the town are not nipped in the bud. Investigations by CrossRiverWatch reveal that, these children who have either been pushed out of their homes by …

11

Oct

EMPOWERING ADOLESCENT GIRLS: ENDING THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

Joe INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD No Comments

Millions of girl children face special problems of inequality, discrimination, abuse and exploitation around the world. This tends to compound the risk of survival, as well as poses an obstacle against the development of the girl child. Girl Child abuse and discrimination have many societal and individual consequences that produce lifelong scars. We …

06

Oct

IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT NECESSARY FOR CHILD UPBRINGING?

Joe CHILD UPBRINGING No Comments

“Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shall beat him with the rod and shall deliver his soul from hell” …The Bible (Prov. 23:13-14) Both the Islamic and Christian religions are in support …

04

Oct

EMERGENCE OF MODERN SLAVERY

Joe CHILD ABUSE 3 Comments

THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN SLAVERY “It is hard to believe that slavery still exists, it may be harder still to accept that hundreds of millions of people face lives only a little more free, with only a few more choices. The poor and powerless often find themselves …

25

Sep

TRAIN UP YOUR CHILD TO GIVE

Joe CHILD UPBRINGING, Day of charity 6 Comments

From childhood, children should be trained to imbibe the attitude of giving, because what a child doesn’t receive, he can seldom later give. Giving clothes and food is one thing but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use it …

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