{"id":24942,"date":"2016-04-28T01:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bugesera-residents-urged-to-gear-up-protection-of\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T01:17:00","slug":"bugesera-residents-urged-to-gear-up-protection-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bugesera-residents-urged-to-gear-up-protection-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugesera residents urged to gear up protection of children\u2019s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda National Police (RNP) has called on residents of Rweru sector in Bugesera district to gear up their efforts in preserving children\u2019s rights at all times and also promote thier welfare.}<\/p>\n<p> The call was made on April 26 by police officers who accompanied the mobile police station van where it handled different complaints filed by residents of Butima cell where the van was station.<\/p>\n<p> Prior to taking on residents\u2019 complaints, officers took time to tutor residents about children\u2019s rights and their role in ensuring children\u2019s rights are  not violated.<\/p>\n<p> In her address to residents, Inspector of Police (IP) Viviane Umulisa  from the Criminal Investigation Department (CIP) described who a child is and their rights saying, \u201cchildren\u2019s right starts from how to care for them, how you provide requirements for their wellbeing, the love you show them and how best you ensure their safety and protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> She mentioned that some of the ways used in abusing children\u2019s rights include physical and psychological violence, sexual harassment as well as child labour.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe have renewed our commitment to ensure that no children live on the streets or any other place that is unfit for habitation. This commitment also includes fighting child labor or any other vice that undermines the rights of a child; but we cannot achieve this without your involvement thats why we are calling you to come on board so that we give a good life to our children,\u201d IP Umulisa said.<\/p>\n<p> She urged them to report to police anyone who violated or abuses a child in any way. Following her address, residents pledged to work closely with security organs in preserving children\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11985 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/csm_20160427170725_7f66605f76.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda National Police (RNP) has called on residents of Rweru sector in Bugesera district to gear up their efforts in preserving children\u2019s rights at all times and also promote thier welfare.} The call was made on April 26 by police officers who accompanied the mobile police station van where it handled different complaints filed by [&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-24942","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\/24942","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=24942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24942"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24942"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}