Ensuring Ethiopian Children, in Need of Care and Protection for the Abandoned Child: The Law and the Practice, the Case of Addis Abeba
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2020-09
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A.A.U
Abstract
Abandoned children are considered as among the vulnerable group of the society; because, they
are deprived from family environment through means of rejection or physically abandoned by
their own parent or caregiver. The practice of child abandonment mainly violates child right to
life, survival and the right to development which has a grantee under CRC, ACRWC and FDRE
constitution. It is the main social problem for a long time, especially in Addis Ababa. Most
abandoned children in Ethiopia faces high rate poverty, less access to education and labour
exploitation. The study mainly identified that, despite the constitutional guarantee for all child
right, the Ethiopian legislation are not adequately address the issues of abandoned child in the
protection of their right to grow and cared by own family and the right to get alternative child
care. In addition, they stay in a bad situation within the care institution until transfer to new
foster or adoptive family. Due to such identified legal and practical problems, the study
recommended to revise the current legislations in line with the best protection for abandoned
child and provide capacity building for parents and child care institutions in order to mitigate
the number of abandoned children within Addis Ababa.
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Child Abandonment; Institutional Care; Alternative Child Care; court; Ethiopia.