Summary: The South African High Court has struck down laws criminalising consensual sexual acts between 12 and 16 year olds.[15 January 2013] Laws that make consensual sex between teenagers a crime are unconstitutional, a high court found on Tuesday...
Summary: As thousands of Zimbabweans are deported from South Africa, hundreds of migrant children awaiting deportation are being held in appalling conditions in detention facilities near Johannesburg and Musina, despite calls from legal and medical...
Summary: Report on life imprisonment sentences for children in the Commonwealth States.In 2010 CRIN, together with other partners, launched a campaign for the prohibition of inhuman sentencing of children- defined to include sentences of death, life...
Summary: A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholders...
To educate the public, the bar (lawyers), and the judiciary (judges) about the harm caused by all forms of childhood genital cutting, including female genital cutting (also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), male genital cutting (also known...
Summary: Despite South African law prohibiting the detention of children for immigration purposes, according to Lawyers for Human Rights, a local NGO that conducts regular visits to immigration detention centres around the country, a significant and...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are...
Summary: This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child...
This report is an update to the situational analysis of children in prison in South Africa prepared by the Community Law Centre in 1997. The Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 (Child Justice Act), promulgated on 1 April 2010, introduced a markedly...
Summary: Notorious murder statistics in South Africa are almost matched by its road fatalities – and it's often schoolchildren who die. [4 June 2012] - It is 7.40am in Broadlands Park, a poor settlement on the edge of Cape Town. With only 20...
