African Children’s Charter 85 (j) to support through technical and financial means, the mobilisation of local community resources in the development of primary health care for children. Article 15: Child labour 1. Every child shall be protected from all forms of economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s physical, mental, spiritual, moral, or social development; 2. State parties to the present Charter shall take all appropriate legislative and administrative measures to ensure the full implementation of this article which covers both the formal and informal sectors of employment and having regard to the relevant provisions of the International Labour Organization’s instruments relating to children, state parties shall in particular: (a) provide through legislation, minimum ages for admission to every employment; (b) provide for appropriate regulation of hours and conditions of employment; (c) provide for appropriate penalties or other sanctions to ensure the effective enforcement of this article; (d) promote the dissemination of information on the hazards of child labour to all sectors of the community. Article 16: Protection against child abuse and torture 1. State parties to the present Charter shall take specific legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment and especially physical or mental injury or abuse, neglect or maltreatment including sexual abuse, while in the care of a parent, legal guardian or school authority or any other person who has the care of the child. 2. Protective measures under this article shall include effective procedures for the establishment of special monitoring units to provide necessary support for the child and for those who have the care of the child, as well as other forms of prevention and for identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment, and follow-up of instances of child abuse and neglect. Article 17: Administration of juvenile justice 1. Every child accused or found guilty of having infringed penal law shall have the right to special treatment in a manner consistent with the child’s sense of dignity and worth and which reinforces the child’s respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms of others. 2. State parties to the present Charter shall in particular: (a) ensure that no child who is detained or imprisoned or otherwise deprived of his or her liberty is subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; (b) ensure that children are separated from adults in their place of detention or imprisonment; (c) ensure that every child accused of infringing the penal law: (i) shall be presumed innocent until duly recognised guilty; (ii) shall be informed promptly in a language that he understands and in detail of the charge against him, and shall be entitled to the assistance of an interpreter if he or she cannot understand the language used; (iii) shall be afforded legal and other appropriate assistance in the preparation and presentation of his defence; (iv) shall have the matter determined as speedily as possible by an impartial tribunal and if found guilty, be entitled to an appeal by a higher tribunal;