The Children's Rights Project (CRP)

Recent research projects include:

• assisting with drafting, implementation, and monitoring South Africa’s Children’s Act, its regulations, and South Africa’s Child Justice Act
• coordinating the Child Justice Alliance, which monitors the implementation of child justice standards in South Africa
• providing technical support to child law reform initiatives in countries in Eastern and Southern Africa (Ethiopia, Angola, Kenya, Zimbabwe)
• developing a handbook on the right to birth registration, name and nationality in Africa
• preparing Country Briefs (Angola, Guinea, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe) to strengthen civil society voices in the implementation of the African Children’s Charter
• providing direct research support to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)

Project administrator: Crystal Nitsckie

Email: cnitsckie@uwc.ac.za