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Press releases and media briefings

COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE À L’OCCASION DE LA CÉLÉBRATION DE LA JOURNÉE DE L’ENFANT AFRICAIN LE 16 JUIN 2025

Jun 16, 2025

La CEN-SAD souhaite souligner que la situation des enfants mérite une attention encore plus grande compte tenu des faits et des réalités qui...

PRESS RELEASE ON THE OCCASION OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD

Jun 16, 2025

CEN-SAD would like to emphasize that the situation of children deserves even greater attention given the facts and realities that concern all member...

Toys, not guns. Playground, not prison.

Jun 20, 2024

ACPF & University of Leiden join forces

Jun 3, 2024

African Child Policy Forum and Leiden Child Law Department join forces to advance children’s rights in Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / Leiden,...

Decriminalising Female Genital Mutilation in Gambia

Apr 2, 2024

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 02 April 2024 Africa’s leading child rights policy, advocacy and research centre is calling on the government of Gambia to...

African girls “robbed of their future”

Nov 20, 2023

Mauritius and Tunisia named Africa’s most girl-friendly countries; Comoros and South Sudan come bottom. Addis Ababa, November 20 2020. African girls...

African governments must act to break this vicious circle

Nov 14, 2023

Addis Ababa, 14 November 2023 - Child rights and wellbeing campaigners today urged African governments to take immediate action to end child poverty...