Urban Poverty and the Child’s Right to Privacy: a Case Study of Kibera -nairobi

Abstract

Upon probing and reviewing various studies on the implementation of the rights of the child to privacy, it became apparent that the right to privacy has not been reasonably realized among the urban poor population particularly in Kibera which is one of the areas in Nairobi where many of the urban poor population stay.Inmany homes children’s rights are nor realized due to the competition for limited economic resources which has increasingly become a challenge among the dwellers of Kibera in these circumstances the need for every home to adopt the practice of respecting the child’s right to privacy is unrecognized and therefore not given prominence. The study sought to establish the link between urban poverty and the realization of the child’s right to privacy.It also looked into how factors like the child’s living conditions impacted on his/ her rights to privacy, the effect of parents involvement to the implementation of the child’s right to privacy in Kibera and the extent to which parents literacy levels and culture challenges the implementation of child’s right to privacy in Kibera were given prominence. By elucidating the principles and importance of child’s right to privacy, this study contributes to the general study of human rights, protection of children’sprivacy rights andthe human dignity of the child. It compliments other studies on children’s rights by focusing on the right to privacy which the researcher found out that has not been researched on widely compared to other rights like that to education, health which have received prominence in the internal and local research sphere. It challenges human rights practitioners and academicians and advises them-to look into all the rights of the child with equal interest. Thestudy is intended to benefit child protection officers, parents and the children for better realization of the child’s privacy rights...