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Post Arab uprising – where are the voices of women in Tunisia in 2020?
(International Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020)
The state is committed to the protection of acquired rights for women and works to support and develop them. The state shall endeavour to achieve the principle of party between men and women in elected councils . The state ...
The Islamic Law of Marriage and Inheritance in Kenya
(Cambridge University, 2021)
Article 24(4) of the Constitution of Kenya qualifies the right to equality “to the
extent strictly necessary for the application of” Islamic law “in matters relating to
personal status, marriage, divorce and inheritance”. ...
Mothers and others: Transgender birth, birth registration and the rights of the child, with a focus on the United Kingdom and South Africa
(International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 2020)
The review concerns the position of the identification as ‘mother’ or ‘father’ of trans persons who give birth. This matter has occupied courts in the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil and Sweden recently, and could well ...
SDG 16 and the Impact of the CCR on Pre-trial Detention of Children in South Africa
(Speculum Juris, 2020)
The danger to children of “criminal
contamination” while in detention
pending trial cannot be underestimated.1
Unfortunately, a large number of children
are reported to be in pre-trial detention
yearly. Sustainable ...
Sideswipes and Backhanders: Abolition of the Reasonable Chastisement Defence in South Africa
(International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 2020)
This article reviews the abolition of the defence of reasonable chastisement by the South African Constitutional Court on the grounds that it infringes the Constitution. After detailing the history of the abolition of ...
Child justice: Changes to the minimum age of criminal capacity
(Juta, 2020)
Accessed: http://www.jutajournals.co.za/child-justice-changes-to-the-minimum-age-of-criminal-capacity/
Evaluating the role of the African committee of experts on the rights and welfare of the child in the Covid-19 era: Visualising the African child in 2050
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
Africa has gained much traction in recognising the rights of
the child with an emphasis on his or her holistic environments. Three
general environments that affect a child are identified: first, a peaceful
environment ...
The Tunisian constitutional transition and debates: Islam, women and other actors in the wake of the post Jasmine revolution
(2020)
The Arab uprising in Tunisia, dubbed the Jasmine Revolution
began in 2010, protesting against unemployment, corruption,
injustice and the absence of basic freedoms. The Jasmine
Revolution ousted Ben Ali, the then president ...
Philosophical racism and ubuntu: In dialogue with Mogobe Ramose
(Routledge, 2020)
This article discusses two complementary themes that play an important role in contemporary South African political philosophy: (1) the racist tradition in Western philosophy; and (2) the role of ubuntu in regaining an ...
Safeguarding Children in the Developing World—Beyond Intra-Organisational Policy and Self-Regulation
(MDPI, 2020)
Safeguarding in the context of development and humanitarian assistance has received heightened international attention since 2018. Emerging literature has not yet investigated the extent to which responses are evolving in ...