Internal Child Protection Principles

UN General Assembly on 20 November 1989, in order to realize the basic children rights:

  • The right to life involving the right to survival, shelter, clothes, health, nutrition, name and nationality

  • The right to development involving the right to good quality of education, access to vocational and life skills education, access to information and material from a diversity of national and international sources to develop their social, spiritual and moral well-being and mental health, additionally health care services, leisure and recreation

  • The right to protection involving the freedom from sexual, economical exploitation illicit commerce and drug addiction, physical and mental violence, injury or abuse, arbitrary punishment and neglect or negligent treatment.

  • The right to participation, including liberty to participate in economic, social and cultural activities, to expression, to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kind regardless of frontier, and the right to freedom of thought, association, peaceful assembly and religion.

In acknowledgment to above accountabilities, the bearers of child-right duties commit to respect, fulfill, and protect the rights of all children, participating in, and being reached by the projects in/at the center, and the community levels.

All the persons, within the organization, and visitors, donors, and other relevant personnel, shall be covered by the policy and/or principles, signified that they have the professional, ethical, and moral duties to adhere, and act where there are concerns in relation to the children, with whom they come to directly or indirectly contact.

As soon as a concern about child-abuse, violence, and other children, neglected or at risk, has been raised, the staff within CHO organization, received the news of the concerns, must ensure the Executive Director is immediately informed.

Any act, which is confirmed, and committed by staff during the employment, is considered to be criminal, and infringes upon children’s rights or contradicts the principles, and standards, set in the policy of Child Protection, whether validating through the legal process, or obtaining the reliable evidence, it shall be the ground for immediate, or disciplinary action, and termination, being appropriate to the circumstances. In the case of volunteers, or student-internship, contracts of termination shall be produced.

A staff, found to have abused any child, shall be charged after a due process of investigation, immediate termination of employment, along with appropriately/legally filing.