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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Children's rights"”.
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Children's rights and child labour: a comparative study of children's rights and child labour legislation in South Africa, Brazil and India
… and taking account of the daily realities of children in South Africa, Brazil and India (IBSA), outline the progress made to reduce and eradicate the exploitation of children, through the elimination of child labour. These three countries are chosen because of the particular challenges they …
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Physical punishment in Nigerian secondary school: a children's rights perspective
… ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) along with other international and regional treaties and has prohibited physical punishment in schools in domestic law. Despite these instruments, Nigerian children still experience these practices due to cultural and …
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Children's rights and girl child marriages : a case study for Malawi
… towards the full realization and enjoyment of children's rights in Africa. In the sub-Saharan Africa alone, countries such as Malawi are faced with the problem of child marriage where as high as 40% of the women are married as children. Malawi has a substantive legal framework that affords …
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The effectiveness of protecting children's rights in post-conflict Liberian society
… to examine those provisions of the Liberian Children's Law that refer to measures preventing the use of children in armed conflict, measures protecting children from being used in armed conflict as well as measures reintegrating children into society who have participated in such violence in …
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Evaluating the impact of independent children's rights institutions: A European case study
Most European countries now have independent children’s rights institutions, but there has been little attempt to systematically evaluate their impact. This study attempts to fill this gap by exploring the kinds of impact institutions make, and how this could be evaluated. Critical realism, case …
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The relevance of culture and religion to the understanding of children's rights in South Africa
… the influence of culture and religion on the rights of the child from a South African perspective. This paper does not engage in a debate about whether children's rights are universal or not. The underlying premise is that children's rights are universal. The paper simply uses the universalism …
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Public perceptions of child protection programmes in Zimbabwe: Towards strategies to Improve the full realisation of children's rights
The study focused on the evaluation of children's rights as a vulnerable group and how they are protected in Zimbabwe. The study focused on rights to education, health, water, food, a safe environment and protection from sexual exploitation. The objectives of the study were to find out how people …
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The role of Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children in Africa in raising Awareness about Children's Rights among children
… Africa’s response to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) 1989 Article 42, and the General Comment No. 2 2002. It explores ways of using Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children (IHRICs) to raise awareness about children’s rights among children; so that children can …
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Has the ‘best interests of the child' principle been applied to children's rights in Botswana on maintenance, custody and adoption matters?
… the common law as well as statute laws. Children in Botswana are subject to all these laws and systems. At international level, Botswana has acceded to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and has ratified several other international and regional human rights …
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When parents die: locating children's right to economic security in South Africa's law of succession and guardianship
… democracy has coincided with the recognition of children as independent rights-holders within its legal system. Signature and ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) demonstrated the Republic's …
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To what extent do South Africa and Scotland comparatively respect, protect and fulfill children's rights in the context of youth justice and in light of their international and regional obligations?
… of international child law aimed at protecting children who come into conflict with the law. The international and regional juvenile justice frameworks outline the standards expected of States party to the international instruments. Both South Africa and Scotland are obligated to adhere to these …
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Cultural and traditional practices and the implementation of the right of the child to be heard under Article 12 of the UNCRC
The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereafter UNCRC) is one of the international instruments that broadened children's rights and placed it at the top of government agenda. A fundamental objective of the UNCRC is to establish the status of children as rights-bearers, and …
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The domestication of international law standards on the rights of the child with specific reference to juvenile justice in the African context
The thesis focused on how the advent of children's rights, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has impacted on the subject of juvenile justice and embarked on a practical examination of law reform in this regard in an African context. The focus was placed on a number of …
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ŠIAULIŲ APSKRITIES SAVIVALDYBIŲ VAIKO TEISIŲ APSAUGOS SKYRIŲ VEIKLOS ANALIZĖ /
The relevance of the analysis. Rights of the child protection system in Lithuania is still in the stage of infancy, because the rights of the child-driven system started to form only in 1993, when was established the Rights of the Child Protection Service, nowadays called the divisions of the …
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Protection of the right of asylum-seeking children not to be unlawfully detained: a look into the laws of Botswana
… seekers, whether alone or accompanied by their children, be held at the Francistown Centre for Illegal Immigrants pending transfer to the Dukwi Refugee Camp if their application for refugee status is successful or deportation if unsuccessful. Botswana is therefore notorious for detaining asylum …
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The child and the adult in contemporary children's literature : Roald Dahl, Anne Fine, Diana Wynne Jones, J. K. Rowling
… explores the work of the above four contemporary children's writers, in relation to post-1960s Western society. I concentrate primarily on depictions of children, adults and relationships between the two, and the way in which these depictions engage with changing social attitudes. I also place the …
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Protecting the identity and other rights of children born in 'foreign lands' to irregular migrant parents
Children born in foreign territories to parents who are non-nationals are being deprived of the right to nationality, which in turn affects them from exercising other rights which are articulated in human rights instruments. When their births are not registered it means that they do not have birth …
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Vaiko teisės į sveikatos ugdymą realizavimas bendrojo lavinimo mokyklose: mokinių ir mokytojų požiūris /
… health the most, so it is appropriate to allow children to take care of their health from a very young age. Various documents on global and national level promote the importance and necessity of health education, but the data of health statistics show that health education has not yet produced …
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Application of the international prohibition on child labour in an African context : Lesotho, Zimbabwe and South Africa
… support for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1990 and the International Labour Organisation's Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour of 1999, implies a high degree of international concern for the …
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The protection of children in non- international armed conflict: Lessons from South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo
… several vulnerabilities and harms. For example, children, as a vulnerable group, experience more problems in this regard. However, armed conflicts are generally regulated internationally through humanitarian law and human rights laws. Accordingly, several United Nations Conventions and Protocols …
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