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Unaccompanied and Separated Foreign Children in the Care System in the Western Cape – A Socio-Legal Study
(Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016)
This article reports on the findings of a study of foreign children accommodated in the care system in the Western Cape, based on fieldwork conducted in child and youth care centres. The objectives of the study were firstly ...
Children deprived of their liberty: protection from torture and ill treatment
(Tygerberg: Medical Research Council, 2012)
Children deprived of their liberty by the state are, as a result of state officials’ action or inaction, at the risk of death, torture, and ill treatment. Three types of places of detention are discussed, namely prisons, ...
A maturing manifesto: The constitutionalisation of children’s rights in South African jurisprudence 2007-2012
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)
This article represents the next in a series of five-year overviews of children’s rights in the courts in South Africa. Using the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Welfare of Children as ...
Substantive equality and maternal mortality in Nigeria
(Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2012)
When women’s lives are cut short or incapacitated as a result of pregnancy or childbirth, the tragedy cascades. Children lose a parent. Spouses lose a partner. And societies lose productive contributors ... And as long as ...
The ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation 202, and poverty reduction
(Development in Practice, 2015)
This article critically assesses the provisions of ILO Recommendation 202 on social protection floors with a view to ascertaining its efficacy for poverty reduction in poor regions. The article discusses the relevant ...
The (mis)management of ethno-linguistic diversity in Ethiopian cities
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Ethiopia has an ethnic federal system that is based on the assumption that the ethnolinguistic communities of the country are located in neatly defined, or definable, territorial areas. On the basis of this assumption the ...
The socio-economic impact of pre-trial detention in Kenya, Mozambique and Zambia
(Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), 2016)
This project seeks to confirm and quantify the socio-economic impact of pre-trial detention on detainees, their families and associated households in the main urban centres of Kenya, Mozambique and Zambia. The aim is to ...
The criminalization of torture in South Africa
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)
This article describes the politics related to the criminalization of torture in South
Africa. It studies the differences between torture as an international crime and
as a crime under international human rights law. The ...
Between rhetoric and reality: the relevance of substantive equality approach to addressing gender inequality in Mozambique
(GAP, 2017)
The purpose of this article is to examine the socio-cultural challenges that continue to limit women’s enjoyment of their fundamental rights and freedoms in Mozambique. In this regard, this article focuses on three areas ...
The human rights implications of virginity testing in South Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2016)
This article examines the historical context of virginity testing in Southern Africa with a focus on South Africa. It then examines the arguments often adduced in justifying the introduction of this practice. The two major ...