{"id":24259,"date":"2016-03-31T01:12:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T01:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kamonyi-opinion-leaders-vow-to-defend-children-s\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T01:12:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T01:12:25","slug":"kamonyi-opinion-leaders-vow-to-defend-children-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kamonyi-opinion-leaders-vow-to-defend-children-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamonyi opinion leaders vow to defend children\u2019s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{About 100 opinion leaders from Kamonyi District committed to defending children\u2019s rights and ensure they work closely with security organs to bring to book whoever violates the rights of minors.}<\/p>\n<p>They made the commitment on March 29 following a meeting on crime prevention with the District Community Liaison Officer Inspector of Police (IP) Athanase Niyonagira, and attended by local leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery child has a right to live, acquire education, good health, shelter, and clothing, among others. You should as well protect children from any form of discrimination and child labour,\u201d IP Niyonagira told the elders.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that there are parents who subject their children to corporal punishments thinking that it\u2019s the best way of disciplining them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVerbal assault can as well be a crime against a child\u2019s rights same as child labor and other offenses such as defilement and denying them a right to education. We must, therefore, treat each child in society very well; respectable parents should be the eyes and ears of the law in society by immediately reporting cases of child abuse to Police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough quick response, we can protect children and ensure their rights are observed,\u201d said IP Niyonagira<\/p>\n<p>The opinion leaders were also reminded utilize the 116 police child help line whenever they encounter a case of child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Marthe Umugiraneza, the Executive Secretary of Gacurabwenge Sector noted that parents and the elders have a crucial role in fighting such acts of violation of children rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs local leaders, parents and opinion leaders, we have to commit ourselves to this course to champion the promotion of children rights and report any form of abuse,\u201d Umugiraneza said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11281 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0a925ca19c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{About 100 opinion leaders from Kamonyi District committed to defending children\u2019s rights and ensure they work closely with security organs to bring to book whoever violates the rights of minors.} They made the commitment on March 29 following a meeting on crime prevention with the District Community Liaison Officer Inspector of Police (IP) Athanase Niyonagira, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[550],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-police"],"bylines":[{"id":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}