{"id":1543,"date":"2014-07-07T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2016-07-21T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T10:10:38","slug":"together-no-for-alcohol-to-minors-or-under-18-u-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/together-no-for-alcohol-to-minors-or-under-18-u-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Together \u201cNo\u201d for alcohol to minors or under 18 (U-18)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some hotel institutions and associations which are against human traffic signed the Charter to refuse providing alcohol to under 18.<\/strong>-By Yves Didier Irakoze<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2026 the alcohol consumption to young is excessive and if nothing is done very urgently, the situation may get from bad to worse \u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe best tool used by human traffickers is alcohol to accomplish their evil mission and children are the most targeted group,\u201d points out Florence Boivin, President of Justice and Equity. According to her, the alcohol consumption to young is excessive and if nothing is done very urgently, the situation may get from bad to worse. \u201cThen, let\u2019s fight and act now,\u201d states Florence.
\nThat is the reason why, she says, her institution, some hotels\u2019 owners, associations and civil society institutions gathered in Burundi Alcohol Policy Alliance (BAPA) signed the Charter to protect and fight against alcohol consumption and abuse to U-18.
\nThe signatories of the Charter agree not provide alcohol to under 18 persons. For u-18 persons who would like to cheat, they will have to present their identity card before being served alcohol drink.
\n\u201cThis is for the protection of our children. We have to protect them against alcohol abuse. We don\u2019t have to see only our benefit but preserve our youths who are the future of the country,\u201d points out the owner of \u201cClub du Lac Tanganyika\u201d.
\nFlorence Boivin urges other hotels owners who haven\u2019t yet signed the Charter to join others for the significantly useful initiative to protect the youths.
\n\u201cThis is the beginning; we hope that other pubs, restaurants and hotels will follow the example of others,\u201d mentions Florence Boivin<\/p>\n

The law should be reviewed<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the lawyer who belongs to the group of lawyers who joined the movement of fighting against human traffic and alcohol consumption to the youths, the law on consuming alcohol under 18 doesn\u2019t stipulate strong and rigorous measures or punishment to the consumer. This law only stipulates that it is strictly forbidden to provide alcohol drinking to U-18. He highlights that this law on consuming alcohol by U-18 should be reviewed and be adjusted accordingly.
\n\u201cThe government should take the issue in hand and it is its responsibility and duty to protect its citizens and particularly the youths. It has to set up appropriate measures which sanction alcohol abuse to the youths very harshly because today, we are attending a frightening situation which is spreading dangerously in the country,\u201d points out the lawyer.
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\nThe hotels that signed the Charter are \u201cClub du Lac Tanganika\u201d, Sun safari, Safari Gate hotels, New Agena, Star Hotel and Rehoboth of Gitega.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some hotel institutions and associations which are against human traffic signed the Charter to refuse providing alcohol to under 18.-By Yves Didier Irakoze \u201cThe best tool used by human traffickers is alcohol to accomplish their evil mission and children are the most targeted group,\u201d points out Florence Boivin, President of Justice and Equity. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[58,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}