APPLICATION OF THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF THE CHILD IN ALGERIAN LEGISLATION - OBJECTIVE AND PROCEDURAL STUDY-
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Algeria has worked through many legal texts to give a margin to the rights of the child, This is evident through substantive and procedural aspects, from his birth and his affiliation with the family and the state, and the keenness to provide a legal environment that makes the child’s interest the desired goal in line with the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, taking into account the specificity of Algerian society and its religious dimension, where legislative details appeared in Algeria that are richer and more realistic than the African Charter, especially some financial rights approved by Islamic law, Despite this, certain aspects remain worth updating at the level of the Charter and the Algerian legal text in light of the continuous violations recorded against childhood, which requires developing procedural aspects and not keeping them as theoretical texts that harm the child instead of protecting him.
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