Other Publications
Up one levelVarious publications on Juvenile Justice and Children's Rights are available for downloading. For more information or to receive a copy of any of these publications, please contact Janine Demas on (021) 959 3701 or jdemas@uwc.ac.za
Getting to Know the Child Justice Act
This publication is intended to provide the reader with a simple overview of the contents of the Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 (the Act). It attempts to reduce the ‘legalise’ of the Act; remove constant cross-references to other sections; and bring themes together in a logical and user-friendly manner.
The New Children's Act - Protecting our Children
The brochure contains information on the following: What does the New Children's Act do? How does the Children's Act protect our children? How are children protected against HIV, STD'S and unplanned pregnancies? Who must report abuse? What are our parental responsibilities and rights? Who has parental responsibilities and rights? What about child-headed households? What about our cultural and religious practices?
Free Education is a Right for Me: A report on free and compulsory primary education
This report is written by Prof. Julia Sloth-Nielsen & Mr Benyam D. Mezmur for Save the Children Sweden.
Child Justice in South Africa: Children’s rights under construction (Conference Report)
The Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA) and the Child Justice Alliance, which the Children’s Rights Project co-ordinate, convened a conference entitled “Child Justice in South Africa: Children’s rights under construction”. The purpose of the conference was to take stock of the situation relating to the criminal justice system for children in conflict with the law.
Children Used by Adults to Commit Crime: Situation Analysis and Pilot Design
This study records the results of a situation analysis and baseline study to explore the use of children by adults and older children in the commission of crimes, which has been identified as a worst form of child labour. It builds on South Africa’s commitment to address child labour, as evidenced in the constitutional protection accorded to this group of children, as well as early ratification by the South African government of ILO Convention 182 concerning the elimination of the worst forms of child labour. The implementation of ILO Convention 182 is marked by the need for the design and implementation of targeted measures to address the situation of children involved in the worst forms of child labour. This study constitutes the first step in the process of achieving that goal.
Children Used by Adults to Commit Crime: Prevention Programme Manual
This manual contains two prevention programmes focusing on children used by adults or older children to commit crime. One programme is aimed at children within an educational or residential setting and seeks to help them identify situations and factors that place them at risk of adult influence to commit crime, while providing alternative behavioral methods to avoid such situations. The second programme is aimed at parents, caregivers and communities, in order to raise awareness of the phenomenon of children used by adults to commit crime and encourage the appropriate treatment of children.
Children Used by Adults to Commit Crime: Children's Perceptions of their Use by Adults in the Commission of Offences
This publication contains the study aimed at consulting with children on the nature, extent and consequences of Child Used by Adults in the Commission of Crime (CUBAC). It presents the central findings of the study, followed by the discussion of the key issues emerging from them, and the identification of risk factors suggested by them.
Children Used by Adults to Commit Crime: Diversion Programme Manual
This manual contains an intervention designed for a specific group of child offenders that is meant to supplement existing diversion programmes. The research undertaken with children has shown that adults often use a reward system to elicit the participation of children in crime. This intervention has been designed to provide alternatives and behavioral means for children to avoid them succumbing to such influences and committing offenses. This diversion intervention represents a valuable effort to expand the programmatic responses to offending that are available in South African, in order for specific groups of children in trouble with the law.
Children Used by Adults to Commit Crime: Guidelines for Role-players in the Criminal Justice System
This publication consists of background documents that are needed for the role-players. These documents are: the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; International Labour Organisation: Convention 182; United Nations General Assembly; The South African Constitution; and The Children’s Bill. Guidelines in the Criminal Justice system are specified for the following role-players: the Police; Probation Officers; Prosecutors; Magistrates; Diversion service providers and Child care workers; Legal Representatives for the child and Educators.
Child Justice Alliance: A quantitative overview of children in the criminal justice system: 2007
A report of this nature is as much about what is available as about what is not available. There remain significant information deficiencies in the criminal justice system as it relates to children. The lack of quantitative data for critical components of the criminal justice system presents enormous problems in respect of planning and equally important, monitoring.
Child Justice in Africa: a guide to good practice
This publication documents "best practice" examples pertaining to a number of child justice issues drawn from a wide variety of African countries, namely Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda including South Africa. It is a manual which is suitable for use by policy makers, non-governmental organizations and persons concerned with the implementation of child justice reforms and it highlights innovative local practices that can be replicated between African countries.
A baseline study of children in the criminal justice system in 3 district
This report represents two separate baseline studies undertaken between 2005 and 2007. The first baseline study was undertaken from June 2005 until the end of September 2005. The second one was conducted from September 2006 until mid-February 2007 (with a break between mid-December and mid-January).
The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
The first book dealing with the important topic of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child which is a further means of securing Children's Rights in the international context and supplements the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in the African regional context. This book contains ground-breaking interpretations of the Charter's provisions in the context of the Convention and the African perspective. It delivers insights into how the rights and responsibilities in the Charter can be harnessed to improve the situation and circumstances of children in Africa. More important, it points out the inadequacies of the Charter to ensure a comprehensive analysis of the provisions contained therein.
Report on Children's Rights: "They should listen to our side of the story"
This publication is based on a report compiled by the Community Law Centre at UWC, on workshops held to give effect to Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. These workshops were facilitated in order to ensure child participation in the law reform process occasioned by the South African Law Commission's Review of the Child Care Act 74 of 1983. It is also informed by an evaluation report on this process compiled by Clacherty and Associates in 2001.
Children in Prison in South Africa: A situational analysis
"Every child has the right... not to be detained except as a measure of last resort, in which case, in addition to the rights a child enjoys under sections 12 and 35, the child may be,detained only for the shortest appropriate period of time, and has a right to be ... treated in a manner, and kept in conditions, that take account of the child's age." (SA CONSTITUTION, SECTION 28)
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