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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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