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> Malanding
>
> Dr Henry Carrol Wins 2005 Child Friendly Merit Award
> Thursday 23rd March 2006
>
> On Friday 10th February 2006, the Young Observer Column of The Daily 
> Observer Newspaper, organised a high profile National Child Friendly 
> Award Ceremony, at the Jaama Hall at Kairaba Beach Hotel. The Chief 
> Guest of Honour for the ceremony was Her Excellency The Vice President 
> of The Gambia, Ajaratou, Dr. Mrs Isatou Njie-Saidy, who was 
> represented by the Honourable Secretary of State for Communication, 
> Information and Technology, Mrs Neneh Macdol-Gaye. The Guest Speaker 
> for the occasion was the American Ambassador to The Gambia, His 
> Excellency, Mr. Joseph Stafford. Among the dignitaries who were 
> present at the ceremony, included the Managing Director of The Daily 
> Observer, Dr. Saja Taal, the U. N. I. C. E. F. Representative, Mrs. 
> Cherly Fye etc.
>
> The Award Ceremony was organised to honour deserving institutions and 
> distinguished Gambian personalities, who have played a pivotal role in 
> the promotion and defence of the rights of Gambian children, with a 
> view of making The Republic of The Gambia, a Child-friendly Nation. 
> The National Child Friendly Award Ceremony, was sponsored by the 
> following reputable institutions: Social Security and Housing Finance 
> Corporation (S.S.H.F.C.), The Gambia Tourism Authority (G.T.A.), World 
> View, West Coast Radio, City Limits Radio, GamTours and The Gambia 
> Radio and Television Services (G.R.T.S.).
>
> Her Excellency the First Lady of The Gambia, Mrs. Zainab Yahya Jammeh 
> was granted the Award of Child Friendly Adult Award Of The Year 2005.
>
> Her Excellency the Vice President of The Gambia, Ajaratou, Dr., Mrs. 
> Isatou Njie-Saidy, was granted the Award of Child Ambassador of The 
> Year 2005
>
> The Christian Children Fund (C.C.F.), was granted THE BEST CHILD 
> FRIENDLY INSTITUTION  FOR THE YEAR 2005.
>
> Dr. Henry Darlington Richmond Carrol, a Doctor of Laws and the Deputy 
> Solicitor General and Registrar General at the Attorney General's 
> Chambers and Department of State for Justice, who is also a child 
> rights activist and Human Rights Lawyer, was granted the 2005 CHILD 
> FRIENDLY MERIT AWARD. Dr. Carrol's Award was presented to him by the 
> American Ambassador to The Gambia, His Excellency Mr. Joseph Stafford.
>
> The Young Observer Task Force, under the Chairmanship of Mr. Alex 
> Dacosta, decided to grant Dr. Carrol the aforesaid Award, because of 
> his highly impressive child rights profile, which is reproduced here 
> below:
>
> 1. In October 2004, when The Gambia Tourism Authority banned children 
> who are under 18 years of age, from parambulating within the Tourism 
> Development Area, Dr. Carrol wrote an article in The Daily Observer, 
> strongly challenging the ban by saying it was clearly illegal and a 
> flagrant violation of the right of "Freedom of Movement" of the 
> children concerned, contrary to Section 25 (2) of the 1997 
> Constitution of The Second Republic of The Gambia and the United 
> Nations Convention on The Rights of The Child, to which Gambia is a 
> bona fide signatory.
>
> 2. In 2004, Dr. Carrol was the Chairman of The Grant Allocation 
> Committee, which was set up by the organizers of THE PLYMOUTH DAKAR 
> BANJUL CHALLENGE. The CHALLENGE was constituted of several European 
> drivers, who drove many cars by road all the way from Plymouth (U.K.) 
> to The Gambia, where the cars were auctioned.  The proceeds of the 
> auction, which amounted to millions of Dalasis, were donated by the 
> aforesaid Committee, to deserving Charities which were registered and 
> operating in The Gambia. One criteria to be satisfied, before any 
> Gambian Charity could benefit from the aforesaid donation was that, 
> the Charity in question, must be one whose main objective was to 
> promote the rights and welfare of Gambian children.
>
> 3. For several years, Dr. Carrol has been a member of the Board of 
> Directors of Special Olympics (The Gambia). This is a registered 
> Charity, whose Mission Statement seeks to promote, the rights and 
> welfare of children with learning difficulties.  As a former Chairman 
> of the Board, he was awarded a Special Olympics Commemorative Silver 
> Dollar Coin, by the Special Olympics World Games Committee in the 
> U.S.A. in 1995. The souvenir Coin was signed into American Law, by the 
> then American President, His Excellency Mr. Bill Clinton.
>
> 4. Dr. Carrol an emeritus Senegambian Table Tennis Champion and a 
> life-holder of a Silver Senegambian Table Tennis Trophy is an 
> ex-President of The Gambia Table Tennis Association. Under his able 
> and dynamic leadership over the years, several young Gambian boys and 
> girls travelled extensively out of the Country, to ably represent The 
> Gambia in International Table Tennis tournaments or competitions.
>
> 5. Dr. Carrol is a Senior Law Lecturer at The Gambia Technical 
> Training Institute (G.T.T.I.), which is one of the three Academic 
> Centres of The University of The Gambia. He has been a Senior Law 
> Lecturer at the G.T.T.I.  for twelve unbroken years, from 1994 to 
> date.  During that long period, he has been ably lecturing young boys 
> and girls, on the principles of English Law, Gambian Law, Equity and 
> International Law.
>
> 6. Dr. Carrol is the Legal Adviser and a member of the Board of 
> Directors, of Family Rights Advancement and Protection (F.R.A.P.). The 
> Executive Chairperson of F.R.A.P. is the Honourable Mrs Fatoumata 
> Jahumpa-Ceesay, a nominated member of the National Assembly and an ex 
> Deputy Speaker of the E.C.O.W.A.S. Parliament.  The Association's main 
> objective, is to protect and promote the rights and welfare of Gambian 
> Women and Children.
>
> 7. In 2004, Dr. Carrol was granted the prestigious 2000 OUTSTANDING 
> INTELLECTUALS OF THE 21ST CENTURY AWARD, by the International 
> Biographical Centre, in Cambridge, U.K. The citation for the 
> International Award was, "IN HONOUR OF Dr. HENRY D.R. CARROL'S 
> OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION IN THE FIELD OF LAW, IN THE GAMBIA, THE 
> COMMONWEALTH AND GLOBALLY". Key areas in Dr. Carrol's meritorious 
> development of law in The Gambia, are child rights and the rights of 
> Women. He was the Legal Adviser of the Task Force, which was set up by 
> The Gambia Government in collaboration with U.N.I.C.E.F., to draw up 
> the modalities for The Gambia's ratification of the United Nation's 
> Convention On The Rights Of The Child.
>
> He is a co-author of a regional law book entitled - "WOMEN AND LAW IN 
> WEST AFRICA" This book is a situational analysis, of some of the key 
> problems affecting women in The Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and 
> Nigeria, namely:  Family Law; Inheritance; Access To Land and Violence 
> Against Women. The book was published in 1988, by the Human Rights 
> Study Centre of The University of Ghana, Legon, with funding from the 
> Carnegie Corporation in the U.S.A.
>
> He is also a co-author of "PRE-TRIAL CRIMINAL PROCESS IN COMMONWEALTH 
> WEST AFRICA - THE GAMBIA EXPERIENCE", which was published in The 
> Gambia in 2005. The other two co-authors are: the Honourable Me. 
> Justice Akomaye Agim and Mrs. Naceesay Sallah-Wadda.
>
> 8. For several years, Dr. Carrol was the Legal Adviser and a member of 
> the     Management Board for the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital 
> (R.V.T.H.). One of the main projects of the R.V.T.H., is OPERATION 
> SAVE A BABY, under the distinguished Chief Patronage of the First 
> Lady, Her Excellency Madam Zainab Yahya Jammeh.
>
> 9. In 2005 Dr. Carrol was appointed as the Legal Adviser and a member 
> of the            Board Of Trustees of THE FR. JOSEPH GOUGH SPORTS 
> FOUNDATION, which was inaugurated in 2005, and named after the great 
> and famous Irish Priest and former Principal of St. Augustine's Senior 
> Secondary School, FR. Joseph Gough (C.S.S.P.).  The Foundation is 
> meant to promote the welfare of Gambian Youths.
>
> 10. Dr. Carrol is a member of The Gambia Methodist Laymen's 
> Association (G.M.L.A.) and a former member of the G.M.L.A. Executive 
> Committee (1995/96). The G.M.L.A. was founded in 1985, by the late 
> Honourable Mr. Justice Samuel Forster, a noble son of the late Sir Sam 
> Forster, Knight. Commander. Of The Order Of St. Michael. and St. 
> George. (K.C.M.G.), and a Gambian Judge who was an ex President of The 
> Gambia Court of Appeal. The G.M.L.A.'s aim, is to mobilize male 
> Methodist Youths and old Methodist men, to play a pivotal charitable 
> role, in the life of The Gambia Methodist Church.
>
>
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