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Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Child Law) by Title
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(Women's Health and Action Research Centre, 2021-04)The article assesses the legal and policy frameworks that have an impact on adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health rights (ASRHR) in East and Southern Africa (ESA), confirming the interconnectedness of the ages of ...
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(Institute for Security Studies, 2013)This case note considers the automatic review of child offenders’ cases. Adult offenders’ cases go on ‘review in the ordinary course’ in limited circumstances, but section 85 of the Child Justice Act aims to provide ...
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(Temple University School of Law, 2016)The good news of Roper v. Simmons1 reached South Africa immediately after the decision was handed down in 2005. Child justice advocates in South Africa read the judgment with great interest and saw the judicial nod of ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)It is an undeniable fact that children in Africa face many challenges in their sexual health and development trajectories. One of the challenges that children face is ideological, that is, the social construction of ...
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(Malawi Law Society, 2012)The year 1994 marked the beginning of a new constitutional era for Malawians in general but, most importantly, for children as the future custodians of the Malawi nation. Those who were born in 1994 by international standards ...
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(Sage, 2024-04)No abstract available.
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(Sage, 2018-10)Age of consent criminal laws imposed on African states during colonialism were inherently patriarchal and gender-stereotypic, and continue to influence country approaches toward adolescent consensual sexual conduct. There ...
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(Juta Law, 2009)This article charts the development of a child law jurisprudence that is emerging in Eastern and Southern Africa. The article records how judgments are beginning to make reference to the United Nations Convention on the ...
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(The Verloren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISA, 2010)This article explores the restorative justice jurisprudence of Justice Albie Sachs. The judgments highlighted are Dikoko v Mokhatla, the Port Elizabeth Municipality v Various Occupiers and S v M (Centre for Child Law as ...
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(CRIMSA, 2009)Children do not commit the most crimes. The available official statistics reveal the reality that they make up a small number of the offenders committing serious, violent crimes. The number of children in prison, whilst ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2019)In December 2018, the Centre for Child Law hosted a conference under the theme “Imagining children constitutionally: 20 years of strategic litigation and advocacy”.
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)This contribution provides an overview of children’s rights adjudication in Zimbabwe with a specific focus on emerging jurisprudence under the 2013 Constitution. After a summary of Zimbabwe’s performance in implementing ...
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(Juta Law, 2010)This article explores girls' socio-economic rights fulfilment in South Africa. After setting out the international law context, the article turns to the lived reality of girls in this country through an examination of their ...
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(The Verloren van Themmat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISA, 2012)Na abstract available.
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(Institute for Security Studies, 2013-09)The Constitutional Court recently confirmed an order for the forfeiture of a house from which an unlawful shebeen had been run for years (Van der Burg and Another v National Director of Public Prosecutions).1 In deciding ...
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(2012)South Africa’s criminal justice system has traditionally provided protection for the rights of three categories of persons, namely perpetrators, victims and witnesses – both adults and children. In recent years, however, ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-07)2024 marks the centenary of the League of Nations' Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The Geneva Declaration highlighted the health needs of children and proclaimed the duty of governments to respond to these needs.
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(Educor Holdings, 2018-12)Educating a child with special needs or disability in Nigeria continues to raise concerns of a lack of quality. While education is provided for in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, it is seen as more of an obligation than ...
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(Elsevier, 2014-11)In 2013 there are still thousands of children in South Africa attending dilapidated mud schools, schools lacking sanitation, and schools without electricity. The situation took a positive turn in 2009 when the government ...
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(Juta Law, 2013)The minimum age of criminal capacity in South Africa used to be seven years of age, one of the lowest in the world. The Child Justice Act raised that age from seven to 10 years, and retained the rebuttable presumption of ...
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