The right of a foundling and orphan child to alternative care Mechanisms to protect it from abuse and exploitation- A study under the Child Protection Law 12-15

Abstract

All national and international legislations provide for the protection of human rights, especially for the disabled, and since the child is one of this category, the national legislator came to stress the need for all groups in society to take care of him, rehabilitate him, and protect him from all dangers that threaten Based on that, and in terms of providing protection and attention to the child in general that were dealt with by these human rights legislation, this study tried to reveal the extent to which these legislations, especially the Maghreb ones, are keen to ensure aspects of care and protection for the child with a special status who is an orphan and a foundling, as they are most in need. It is for care and protection, for a moral and humanitarian consideration, then to call for the need to create a special law regulating all the conditions and rights of children with special status, and underlining aspects of their care, by developing care homes and securing foster families, and ensuring the protection of their best interests, especially from all aspects of abuse and exploitation. Inhuman treatment, given that they are deprived of their family environment, the child remains a child, and their rights are the same, whether they have an identity or not, legal or illegitimate, they have a family bond or are deprived of their rights. This includes the attempt to limit the growth of foundlings in particular, considering that it constitutes a moral and legal black point that exacerbates the difficult social situation that contemporary Arab Islamic societies have suffered from severely.