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Surveying the research landscape to promote children's legal rights in an African context
(Juta Law, 2007)
This article represents an initial attempt to identify research themes and topics of special relevance to the furtherance of children's rights in the African context in order to sharpen and strengthen our capacity to promote ...
Too little? Too late? The implications of the Grootboom case for state responses to child-headed households
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
The article begins with an overview of the socio-economic context surrounding child-headed households and then discusses the constitutional obligations that rest on the state vis-a-vis children growing up in these settings. ...
Policy and practice in South African prisons: an update
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
Julia Sloth-Nielsen points to challenges in the correctional system that South Africa's new constitutional democracy was faced with, including the deep-rooted militaristic tradition that needed to be replaced and the ...
Of newborns and nubiles: some critical challenges to children's rights in Africa in the era of HIV/AIDS
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2005)
The international legal framework within which HIV/Aids issues
should be addressed
Both the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the regional
charter for the protection and promotion of children's rights, ...
Race, class and restorative justice: achilles heel, glass ceiling or crowning glory
(Juta Law, 2004)
This article reports on a research project aimed at assessing the impact of race and class disparity in restorative justice processes in South Africa. It was conducted against the backdrop of the inclusion of family group ...
(Illicit) transfer by De Gree
(University of Western Cape, 2007)
The decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in De Gree v Webb [2007] SCA 87 (RSA) is worthy of consideration for a number of reasons, reasons which do not include the prominent (emotive) media attention devoted to ...
A developing dialogue – children’s rights, children’s law and economics: surveying experiences from Southern and Eastern African law reform processes
(Tilburg University Schoordijk Institute, 2008)
Law reform in southern and eastern African countries to domesticate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), to synthesize common, civil and ...
South Africa, the arts and youth in conflict with the law
(Intellect, 2007)
This paper describes the DIME (Diversion into Music Education) youth intervention program that originated in South Africa in 2001. DIME offers instruction in African marimba and djembe bands to juvenile offenders. Conceived ...