Call for rights declaration protecting Melanesian children

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Updated October 29, 2009 20:22:04

Papua New Guinea's Minister for Social Development, Dame Carol Kidu, says she's planning to hold a workshop to develop a Declaration on the Rights of the Melanesian child, as an adjunct to the Universal Declaration on the Rights of the Child. She says it should enshrine as rights such traditions as growing up in an extended family.

Presenter: Linda Mottram, Canberra correspondent
Speaker: Papua New Guinea's Minister for Social Development, Dame Carol Kidu

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