Organisations Working for Child Rights
African Network for the Prevention and Protection
Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN)
ANPPCAN elevates the rights of children by enhancing, in
partnership with others, the prevention and protection of children
from all forms of maltreatment.
ANPPCAN was formed after the First African Conference on Child
Abuse and Neglect, a Pan-African assembly held in 1986 in Enugu,
Nigeria. Since then, ANPPCAN chapters have expanded into 16 African
countries.
In 1990, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African
Union, (AU) awarded ANPPCAN observer status. The African Commission
on Human and Peoples Rights granted similar recognition shortly
afterwards. ANPPCAN’s target group comprises child labourers,
street children, abandoned and neglected children, physically
and sexually abused children, children in situations of armed
conflicts and war, displaced children (internally and externally),
disabled children, children in slum settlements and orphaned Children.
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