Child Protection Policy.

A child according to the purpose of Major Alliance Education Center’s (MAEC) protection policy (herein referred to as the policy), is any human being under the age of 18 years. Or a child is defined as any person who is below the age of 18.Accordingly, this definition applied in protection of child’s rights and welfare/interests.

According to MAEC protection policy is as follows:

v       A child for the purposes of Child protection policy and procedures is any human being under the age of 18 years.

v       Child protection policy finds basis in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1990(herein referred to as CRC) which the united Republic of Tanzania ratified in 1991.The CRC Article 3(2) states.

State parties undertake to ensure the child such protection and care as is necessary for his or her well-being, taking into account the right and duties of his or her parents, legal guardians and other individuals legally responsible for him or her ,and to this end, shall take all appropriate legislative and administrative measures.

A child Abuse consists of any thing which individuals, institutions, or processes do or fail to do which directly or indirectly harm children or damages their prospects of safe and healthy development into adulthood.

               I.      Extra-familial abuse includes child labor such as child domestic work,prostitution,displacement,abduction,trafficking,abandonment,female mutilation,stigmatization,and infanticide

              II.      Familial abuse includes neglect, abandonment, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, humiliation, harassment and infanticide.

            III.      Institution abuse usually takes place in schools, day care centers, children’s homes and correctional rehabilitation homes and centres.It includes physical abuse such as canning,battering,overwork,sexual abuse,humiliation,derogatory language, uncaring altitudes,ridiculing,bullying,drug abuse and misuse of children e.g. doing household chores in teachers’ houses, sending children to sell teacher’s merchandise.

In order to go with child protection policy MAEC is raising its voice to all activists in the world to come together with cooperation demanding the rights of children.

Sera ya Ulinzi mtoto.

mtoto kulingana na madhumuni ya sera Major Alliance Education Center (kwa MAEC) ulinzi (humu inajulikana kama sera), ni binadamu yeyote kuwa chini ya umri wa miaka 18. Au mtoto hufafanuliwa kama mtu yeyote ambaye ni chini ya umri wa 18.Accordingly, ufafanuzi huu kutumika katika kulinda haki za mtoto na ustawi / maslahi.

Kulingana na sera ya ulinzi MAEC ni kama ifuatavyo:

v mtoto kwa madhumuni ya sera ya ulinzi wa watoto na taratibu ni binadamu yeyote kuwa chini ya umri wa miaka 18.

v sera ya Ulinzi wa watoto hupata msingi katika Umoja wa Mataifa wa Haki za Mtoto ya 1990 (humu inajulikana kama CRC) ambayo Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania imeridhia katika Ibara ya 1991.The CRC 3 (2) inasema.

Hali ya vyama vya kufanya ili kuhakikisha kwamba mtoto vile ulinzi na huduma kama ni muhimu kwa ajili yake ustawi, kwa kuzingatia haki na wajibu wa wazazi wake, walezi wa kisheria na watu wengine jawabu ya kisheria ya kwake, na kwa hii mwisho, itachukua wote sahihi hatua za kisheria na kiutawala.

Abuse mtoto lina kitu ambacho watu binafsi, taasisi, au mchakato wa kufanya au kushindwa kufanya ambayo moja kwa moja au madhara watoto au uharibifu matarajio yao ya maendeleo ya salama na kuwa mtu mzima.

I. Extra-kifamilia unyanyasaji ni pamoja na ajira ya watoto kama vile kazi mtoto wa ndani, ukahaba, katika makazi yao, utekaji nyara, biashara, kutelekezwa, tohara kwa wanawake, unyanyapaa, na watoto wachanga

II. Matumizi mabaya ya kifamilia ni pamoja na kupuuzwa, kutelekezwa, matusi, unyanyasaji wa kijinsia, unyanyasaji wa kimwili, udhalilishaji, unyanyasaji na watoto wachanga.

III. Taasisi unyanyasaji kwa kawaida hufanyika katika shule, vituo vya huduma ya siku, nyumba ya watoto na nyumba za urekebishaji na ukarabati centres.It ni pamoja na unyanyasaji wa kimwili kama vile canning, battering, overwork, unyanyasaji wa kijinsia, udhalilishaji, lugha ya dharau, mwinuko asiyejali, ridiculing, uonevu, madawa ya kulevya na matumizi mabaya ya watoto kama vile kufanya kazi za nyumbani katika nyumba za walimu, kupeleka watoto kuuza bidhaa ya mwalimu.

Ili kwenda na sera ya ulinzi wa watoto MAEC ni kuongeza sauti yake kwa wanaharakati wote katika ulimwengu ujao pamoja na ushirikiano wa kudai haki za watoto.