This was also the case for the development of the draft law on the protection and assistance to internally displaced persons in the Republic of Congo, drafted following the development of a national policy document on internally displaced persons and a National Action Plan document on the same issue. Regarding children, the promulgation of the Child Protection Act by the President of the Republic was one of the most significant events of 2010, and two days before the celebration of the International Day of the African Child on June 16. The initiative for this law came from a Member of Parliament who, with the support of UNICEF and the assistance of national experts had developed the bill which followed the usual long route: Parliament, Government, Parliament, Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, President of the Republic. Throughout this process, the concerned MP and the services of UNICEF and the Ministries of Social Affairs and Justice had initiated an advocacy work to the institutions in order to educate and inform them about the importance of this text. The last stage was reached after two years of review that gave the opportunity to raise awareness among policy makers. A few months before this, an international consultation was used to check the conformity of the Bill with the main provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and hence of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of children. In its Chapter 1, Article 2, this law provides for the following objectives of the protection: a. To ensure protection to the child who is integrated into his/her environment while taking into account his/her physical and psychological vulnerability b. To establish a protection mechanism that guarantees children a better understanding and better respect for human rights; c. To raise the child in the sense of national identity and citizenship, fidelity and loyalty to Congo, and with a feeling of belonging to a set of positive civilisation values at national, sub-regional , regional and global levels; d. To develop in the child a sense of morality, respect for his/her parents, his/her family environment, society and the country; e. To give the child an education inspired by humanist culture in accordance with the requirements of scientific educational goals; f. To prepare the child for a participatory life guided by fairness, tolerance, justice and peace; g. To place the issue of rights of the child, including the right to protection in the context of major options of national politics; h. To disseminate the culture of children's rights, raise awareness on its intrinsic characteristics in order to ensure the harmony and balance of his personality; i. To enforce and strengthen children's rights taking into account their best interests. The general principles of non-discrimination and the best interests of the child are taken into account in Articles 3.4, 5 up to article 12. The scope of children's rights is circumscribed in thirty areas including: birth registration, declaration of death, name and nationality, preservation of identity, life, survival and development, the right to live with his/her parents, 14