The statistics are heartbreaking: 6 out of 10 Nigerian children experience violence. 1 in 4 girls and 10% of boys are victims of sexual abuse before age 18. 27% of girls ages 15-49 have undergone FGM. Only 30% of children under 5 are registered at birth. 43% of children are in child labor. K&TRC’s child rights programs fight on every front: facilitating 1,574 rights cases ensuring justice for abused children, ending child marriage and FGM through community sensitization, promoting birth registration, collaborating with security agencies to prosecute violators, and providing psychosocial support to survivors. Our approach is survivor-centered: Children’s voices lead. Justice is pursued. Systems are strengthened. Communities transform norms.
Supporting children and families to navigate justice systems: legal aid, case documentation, court support, ensuring perpetrators face consequences.
Community sensitization, rescue and rehabilitation of child brides, advocacy for enforcement of Child Rights Act, supporting girls to return to school.
Working with traditional leaders, aged mothers, and young people to end female genital mutilation through education and social norms change.
Promoting and facilitating birth registration ensuring children can access education, healthcare, and legal protections.
School and community programs preventing violence against children, establishing reporting mechanisms, rapid response to abuse reports.
Identifying child laborers, supporting families economically to enable school attendance, advocacy against exploitative child labor.
Counseling and trauma support for child abuse survivors, safe spaces, peer support groups, healing programs.