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    • Thirty years of the CRC in Africa 

      Sloth-Nielsen, Julia (Routledge, 2021)
      This chapter reviews 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Africa. It notes that there has been significant upgrading and modernisation of child law throughout the continent, notably in child protection ...
    • Towards a new juvenile justice system in Namibia 

      Sloth-Nielsen, Julia (Intersentia, 2019)
      Namibia ’ s moves towards developing a new juvenile justice system for children in conflict commenced a quarter of a century ago. A country which emerged from the ravages of apartheid colonisation and a bloody civil war ...
    • The withering away of politically salient territorial cleavages in South Africa and the emergence of watermark ethnic Federalism 

      Steytler, Nico; Steytler, Nicolaas (Oxford University Press, 2019)
      The policy of apartheid was an attempt to territorialize the white/black racial cleavage through the creation of bantustans, confining black political aspirations to 13 percent of the country, while the remainder of the ...
    • Women, gender and child marriage: Sub-Saharan Africa, overview 

      Moosa, Najma (Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, 2006)
      This entry provides an overview of early marriage of girls under the age of 18 from a human rights and gender perspective. It examines international conventions relating to child marriage and critiques the application of ...