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Ann Skelton 9th March 2017
The North Gauteng High Court has recently considered the protection of identity for child victims, witnesses and offenders, in a case brought by Zephany Nurse and several NGOs. They are going up against 12 media houses, three of which, Media 24, Independent Newspapers and Times Media are actively opposing the application. Zephany is not the […]
Annemarie Strohwald 16th January 2017
The issue of child marriage and sexual abuse of children in Turkey has once again been placed in the spotlight, resulting in wide news coverage. Turkey counts among the countries with the highest prevalence of child marriages in Europe, with statistics indicating that nearly 15% of girls in Turkey are married before the age of […]
Lucy Vickers 1st November 2016
In its Third Report of Session 2016–17, scrutinising the Children and Social Work Bill, the Joint Committee on Human Rights recommends the introduction in England of a duty on public authorities to have due regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the exercise of their functions relating to safeguarding and […]
John Eekelaar 31st October 2016
The Third Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights for the Session 2016-7 has recommended the inclusion of a clause in the Children and Social Work Bill which would oblige a public authority exercising its functions relating to safeguarding and the welfare of children to have due regard to the UN Convention on the […]
Sarah M. Field 23rd October 2016
The act of peacemaking may be viewed as the promise of a new beginning. It is latent within the sui generis legal form of the self-constituting process, and the often layered human rights transformation at its substantive epicentre. In the complex and evolving legality that constitutes peacemaking, international human rights claims often have heightened performativity. […]