Take Children’s Code Bill to Parliament, Veep orders Sports ministry
VICE President Inonge Wina has directed the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Child Development to ensure the Children’s Code Bill is taken to parliament without any further delay.
Ms Wina said the Children’s Code Bill was critical to ensuring that children enjoyed their rights while protecting them from any form of abuse and alignment.
Ms Wina has regretted that efforts to domesticate the United Nation Convention on rights of children’s through the children’s Code Bill have taken long.
The Vice President said this in Lusaka at an inter – ministerial dialogue on ending violence against children in Zambia yesterday.
She however called on the need to increase children’s protection actions and ensure that the country shared its best practices in the establishment on one stop centers to handle violence in an expeditious manner.
She said the Ministry of Youth , Sport and Child Development must take all necessary measures to work with the global partnership team in order to act on benchmarks required for Zambia to showcase its power to address the plight of children.
Meanwhile, World Health Organisation country representative Nathan Bakyaita who spoke on behalf of the United Nations ( UN) family called for an inter sectoral approach in ending violence against children.
Dr Bakyaita pledged the UN family’s continued support to the Zambian government‘s effort to ending violence against children.
And Youth and Sports Minister Emmanuel Mulenga explained that government desired that every child in Zambia must grow up to their full potential.