Nigeria - Report about Child Labour

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Procedure

Report In-Person:

1. If you have a reason to suspect a child is experiencing harm or is in danger of abuse, neglect, incest, sexual abuse, child battering, child-selling, child labour or child trafficking or if you are a victim of child abuse, please notify:
2. Any Child Protection Network Member at the nearest Local Government Area.
3. Child Protection Unit, Ministry of Youth and Social Development, State Secretariat, Alausa.
4. Gender Unit, State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja.
5. Juvenile Welfare Centres in all police stations.

   Note: Reporting child abuse or neglect is the responsibility of anyone who sees or suspects it.

6. The address and contact details can be found in the “Office Location and Contacts” section of this page. Or click on this Link
7. Visit the office to file complaint.
8. It is important that you include as much details about the issue and the assistance required as possible in your report. Please also attach relevant case documents, extracts of applicable legislation, outline of submissions or any other relevant documents.
9. Once the suspicions of child abuse and/or labour are prove true, the child will be rescued and put up in shelter homes or other alternative arrangements, depending upon the situation.
10. If the children have families and are lost, they are rehabilitated.

    Note: While not all suspicions of child abuse and neglect prove true, protecting vulnerable children is certainly worth the risk.

Report through Call or Text:

1. If you have a reason to suspect a child is experiencing harm or is in danger of abuse, neglect, incest, sexual abuse, child battering, child-selling, child labour or child trafficking or if you are a victim of child abuse, please call or text:
2. Toll Free Rescue Lines for Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Reporting
3. Dial *8620# or
4. Dial 112 or
5. Dial *6820# or
6. Text ‘ABUSE’ to 6820

   Note: Reporting child abuse or neglect is the responsibility of anyone who sees or suspects it.

7. You may provide the concerned Child Protection Member with any proofs you may have of the abuse in the form of picture, video or bonded labour document.
8. Once the suspicions of child abuse and/or labour are prove true, the child will be rescued and put up in shelter homes or other alternative arrangements, depending upon the situation.
9. If the children have families and are lost, they are rehabilitated.

   Note: While not all suspicions of child abuse and neglect prove true, protecting vulnerable children is certainly worth the risk.

Report Online:

1. You can report Child Labour by filling the form: Link
2. It is important that you include as much details about the issue and the assistance required as possible in your report. Please also attach relevant case documents, extracts of applicable legislation, outline of submissions or any other relevant documents.
3. Once the suspicions of child abuse and/or labour are prove true, the child will be rescued and put up in shelter homes or other alternative arrangements, depending upon the situation.
4. If the children have families and are lost, they are rehabilitated.

   Note: While not all suspicions of child abuse and neglect prove true, protecting vulnerable children is certainly worth the risk

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Required Documents

• Any Proof of Child Labour/ Abuse

Office Locations & Contacts

CHILD PROTECTION ALIMOSHO
Beside FAWA Petrol Station,
Adjacent Diamond Estate Main Gate,
Km 2, Isheri-LASU Expressway,
Isheri, Lagos
Tel: 08028355757, 08020555515, 08037067937, 09024888256
Email: [email protected]
Website: Link

House of Mercy Children’sbr> Address: 44 Prince Abiodun Adebambo street, Egbeda,
Lagos, Nigeria
Phone: + 234-802 249 9177
Email: [email protected]
Website: Link

Other relevant agencies you can make a report:Link<br.

Eligibility

Anyone who sees or suspects Child Labour/ Abuse, can report.

Fees

It doesn’t require fees.

Validity

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e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

Documents to Use

Link

Sample Documents

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Processing Time

Once the suspicion is proven true, the child will be rescued immediately.

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Instructions

The most effective way of protecting children from all forms of abuse and exploitation is prevention. It is generally acknowledged that it is better to take steps to prevent child abuse, neglect and exploitation than to deal with its consequences.
Child safety and prevention activities include confronting child abuse before it occurs by

• Teaching children to protect themselves and recognise, resist and report abuse.
• Working with families to stop the root causes of child abuse and neglect.
• Strengthening parenting skills and promoting positive parenting practices through parenting education as well as crisis intervention and counselling.
• Providing training for child care providers, health workers, teachers, police, local authorities and community leaders to strengthen their knowledge and skills to identify and respond to child protection risks including referrals of affected children to appropriate care and rehabilitation services.
• Organising activities directed at changing attitudes and social behaviours of parents, child care providers, teachers, religious leaders and community leaders through advocacy and behaviour change campaigns.
• Tackling deeply ingrained assumptions that child domestic work is an accepted and expected practice especially for girls. Although no single intervention can address the complexity of the issues affecting child domestic workers, the current and future situation of children traded into domestic servitude is dependent on changes in public attitudes and private behaviour of those in a position to employ, and potentially to exploit children.
• Promoting awareness about the prevalence of child abuse and educating the public on the horrors of child abuse.
• Awareness campaigns through television, radio and social media must be carried out to eliminate this shameful scourge of child-selling. Besides severely punishing parents involved in child-selling to deter others, it will require political will, courage and determination by political leaders to create conditions that lift people out of poverty and enable them to live in dignity.

Required Information

• Your Name
• Your Email
• Subject
• Your message

Need for the Document

Reporting Child Labour is everyone’s responsibility.

Information which might help

Child labour (prohibition and regulation) Act 1986 consists of 4 chapters:

• The 1 st chapter gives the basic things of child labour that is: “Child” means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age.
• The 2nd chapter consists of “Prohibition of employment of children in certain occupations and process” it is said to be that the children should not work in any of the hazardous environment that harm their live and health.
• The 3rd chapter consists of “Regulation of work of children” in this we should know about the working hours: the period of work on each day shall be so fixed that no period shall exceed three hours and that no child shall work for more than three hours before he has an interval for rest for at least one hour. No child shall be permitted or required to work between 7 pm and 8 am. No child shall be required or permitted to work overtime.
• The 4th chapter consists of “miscellaneous” in which penalities are given in which any provision which is given for the betterment of child is given that is infringe that person shall have to pay penality for the same.
• Click here to read more about Child Labour: Link
• Click here for more information: Link
  

Other uses of the Document/Certificate

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e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

External Links

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“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” - H.I.M Haile Selassie