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Child Justice Project - A User Manual
2/Dec/2013 Publication
Summary: A report on the work of monitoring committees that are part of the national monitoring process for Child Justice...
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Africa: Meeting of the African Committee of Experts - a positive step to promote and protect the rights of the African child
28/Nov/2013 News
Summary: Amnesty International commended the commitment shown by those African states that have ratified the African...
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TRANSPARENCY: Russia, China and Saudi Arabia among States seeking election to the UN Human Rights Council
26/Nov/2013 News
Fourteen new countries will be elected to the UN’s human rights scrutinising body next week, with France, the United...
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SOUTH AFRICA: 'Over 25% of schoolgirls HIV positive'
26/Nov/2013 News
Summary: At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because "sugar daddies" are...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Children's Ombudsperson
30/Oct/2013 Publication
Summary: Information about institutions in South Africa that monitor children's rights....
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SOUTH AFRICA: National Laws
30/Oct/2013 Publication
Summary: General overview of South Africa's national legal provisions on children's rights, including guidance on how to...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Sex between teens no longer a crime
4/Oct/2013 News
Summary: The Constitutional Court on Thursday declared sections 15 and 16 of the Criminal Law Act, which criminalised...
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Western Cape Forum for Intellectual Disability v. Government of the Republic of South Africa & Government of the Province of Western Cape
Thu, 11/11/2010 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning the right to education of children with severe and profound intellectual disabilities.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Spanking in the home comes under the spotlight
14/Aug/2013 News
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SOUTH AFRICA: New law to ban spanking proposed
31/Jul/2013 News
Summary: Corporal punishment by parents would be deemed a form of assault. ...
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