Contemporary Issues on Children’s Rights in (South) Africa: Law, Policy and Practice

Part 1 - Education

1 - Minimum core, maximum impact: Defining the right to basic education to improve quality and close the achievement gap by Anel Odendaal

2 - The value of African values: The incorporation of African values, traditions and morals in the interpretation and strengthening of the child's right to basic education in South Africa by Annemarie Strohwald

3 - Assessing the right to basic education for children with intellectual disabilities in Uganda by Barbara Can Lamara

4 - Analysing the right to inclusive education for learners with speech and hearing impairments in Zimbabwean primary schools by Judith Machaka

5 - Enforcing a culture of ubuntu and communitarianism in cases involving violence in South African schools by Yeukai Mahleza and Martha Keneilwe Radebe

6 - Assessing the effectiveness of legal and policy frameworks for combating the sexual exploitation of girls in South African schools by Bernard Bushe and Admark Moyo

7 - The play gap – the right to access inclusive playgrounds in South Africa by Nurina Ally and Kyla Damonse

Part 2 - Environment and health

8 - Protecting the right to health of children with albinism in the face of climate change: A South African analysis against international legal standards by Sharna-Lee Clarke and Lelethu Nogwavu

9 - Unspoken hardships: The realisation of the right to health for children with albinism in South Africa by Benni Avhatakali Mudau and Chiedza Simbo

10 - Recognising the overlooked generation: Integrating intergenerational equity to link children's rights and future generations in environmental decision-making in international law by Tanaka Davin Dhumbura

11 - Advancing children's participation rights through disaster and risk reduction management structures: Lessons from South Africa by Prinslean Mahery

Part 3 - Child protection

12 - Transvaluation of the protection of the rights of the child in African constitutions: A comparative analysis by Bamisaye Olutola and Itunu Kolade-Faseyi

13 - Children as pawns? High-conflict parental separation with alleged parental alienation by Brigitte Clark and Juanita Easthorpe

14 - Beyond borders: A comparative critique of trafficking in women and children in South Africa and Cameroon by Megha Nkem

15 - The legal dilemma posed by boxing to the parental duty to act in the best interests of a child: A South African law perspective by Gerald Andrew Ramsden

Part 4 - Marriage

16 - Exploring legal developments on marriages in South Africa: A move towards ending child marriages (Marriage Bill, 2023 and beyond) by Caiphus Tiyisela Mahumani

Evolving capacities and minimum age laws: Current global understandings and ongoing debates on sexual consent and marriage/union by Katherine Watson and Jacky Repila

Part 5 - Digital environment

18 - Navigating the digital frontier: Protecting children's rights in South Africa's digital environment by Emerentia Morape

Part 6 - Child justice

19 - Litigation delays by state organs and the judiciary causing irreparable harm to the waiting injured child victim: Are there quick fixes? by Ferdinand HH Kehrhahn

Part 7 - Migration

20 - An analysis of selected children's rights cases on non-refoulement within the jurisprudence of the United Nations human rights treaty body system by Gertrude Quan

Part 8 - Armed conflict

21 - A critical analysis of the state obligation to protect children's rights during armed conflicts: The street children in Kenya by Leah Alexis Ndimurwimo and Esther Nasimiyu Wanjala