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Centre for Child Law : Recent submissions
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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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(Sage, 2024-04)No abstract available.
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(Oxford University Press, 2022-12)The last three decades have seen an explosion of academic, advocacy and policy-maker interest in both the theory and the practice of children’s rights. There is a growing global body of strategic litigation focused on the ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Access to holistic, quality early childhood development (ECD) services is needed to support the health, nutrition and early learning needs of young children. While South Africa has made some advances in increasing access ...
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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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(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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(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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(University of Pretoria, 2020-10-30)The Constitutional Court judgments of Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children and Another v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Another 2014 (1) SACR 327 (CC) and Centre for Child Law and Others v Media ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)In Christian Education South Africa v Minister of Education, the Constitutional Court upheld the law that prohibited the use of corporal punishment in schools. The decision was primarily premised on protecting children ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2019)The South African Constitutional Court is often lauded for its application of best interests in its judgments. This article acknowledges the positive aspects of the Court’s approach, especially in the earlier cases, but ...
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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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(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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(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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(Sage, 2019-03)No abstract available.
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(Sage, 2018-08)No abstract available.
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(Institute for Security Studies, 2017)In recent years, schools have borne the brunt of protesters’ frustrations with the lack of access to services in South Africa. A 2016 investigative hearing by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) explored ...
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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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(Institute for Security Studies, 2015-12)This case note reflects on the approach that should be adopted by sentencing courts when imposing sentences on child offenders who turn 18 during proceedings. The Western Cape High Court recently considered the application ...
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(Juta Law, 2015)In an early judgment of the Constitutional Court, S v Williams, Justice Langa found that judicial whippings were unconstitutional because they violated young offenders’ rights to dignity and humane treatment. Former ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2015-02)This article explores the arguments for and against victims‟ mitigating opinions on sentence. It describes a recent South African appeal case, compares it with a similar New Zealand appeal court judgment, and then ...
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