80 Instruments of the AU Article XIII: Denunciation 1. Any member state party to this Convention may denounce its provisions by a written notification to the Administrative Secretary-General. 2. At the end of one year from the date of such notification, if not withdrawn, the Convention shall cease to apply with respect to the denouncing state. Article XIV: [Registration with the United Nations] Upon entry into force of this Convention, the Administrative SecretaryGeneral of the OAU shall register it with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in accordance with article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations. Article XV: Notifications by the Administrative Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity The Administrative Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity shall inform all members of the Organization: (a) of signatures, ratifications and accessions in accordance with article X; (b) of entry into force, in accordance with article XI; (c) of requests for amendments submitted under the terms of article XII; (d) of denunciations, in accordance with article XIII. _____________________________________ African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990/1999) Adopted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 11 July 1990 and entered into force on 29 November 1999. The African Children’s Charter is similar to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. However, persons under the age of 18 years are protected to a higher level under the African Children’s Charter, which also provides an individual complaint procedure. The African Children’s Charter has its own monitoring body, the Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, which held its first meeting in 2002. Preamble The African member states of the Organization of African Unity, parties to the present Charter entitled ‘African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child’, Considering that the Charter of the Organization of African Unity recognised the paramountcy of human rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms recognised and guaranteed therein, without distinction of any kind such as race, ethnic group, colour, sex, language, religion, political or any other opinion, national and social origin, fortune, birth or other status; Recalling [that] the Declaration on the Rights and Welfare of the African Child (AHG/ST 4 Rev. 1) adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, at its sixteenth ordinary session in

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