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.
What are a municipality's powers to make law? What are the limits set in the Bill of Rights? And what are some of the basic procedures for the adoption of a by-law? This manual set out the basic rules and procedures surrounding the adoption of by-laws by municipalities in South Africa.
This 2001 paper sets out the roles and responsibilities of the municipal manager. It looks at the municipal manager's duties in relation to the council and to the public and also examines the manager's responsibilities with respect to integrated development planning and performance management.
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.
See article on the committee published in ChildrenFIRST, December 2000.
S Liebenberg (2000) Human Rights and Human Development: South African Country Study Background paper for Human Development Report 2000 (UNDP, Oxford University Press).
"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)
The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
