SPA.TIAL AN,: CHILD LABOUR IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL CITY ABUJA, NIGERIA

Our is a universal phenomenon, althoug h there is no un h./c r.ensus on its control. The international community has 0' battled to put the problem on the burner of issues aeSG:-'ant and dire attention. The earliest international conV81 child labour was the minimum age (Industry) Con./E1919 (Roggers and Standing, 1981). In 1948, the Un ;te:::s approved the Universal Decla ratio n of Human F;_tgtl·~slnternational Legal recognition to chifdren's rights. T h ! S vwed by the Declaration of the Rig hts of the Child in "1 959, 379, by the International Year of th e Chi Id _ All these j n i t i at,,, as a result of the insistent and determ in ed struggles Ol~ behildren by the United Nations (UN) member nations. On N 020, 1989, the 44th General Assembly of the United r"-l at ion tously adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Chi kj sdel instrument for tackling the pro b Ie m _ In 1991, Nigericthe convention as a signatory and thereby legally obligat~lf to incorporate the principles in her national laws and i n ~ Child Rights Act was passed and signed into law Un it8d International Children'S Education Fund (UNICEF, 2006a)