Article 40 now available!

The Children’s Rights Project is happy to announce that the last issue of Article 40 in 2014, is now available.

 In this issue, our feature is on South Africa’s reporting obligations in terms of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child – with a focus on the Child Justice System.


The second feature, Christina Nomdo, Blanche Rezant, Loraine Townsend, and Samantha Waterhouse provide an overview of RAPCAN’s Child Witness Project which advocates for a child rights based approach in the criminal justice system for child victims of sexual abuse. The feature provides, among others, a justification for the project and the aims of the project.


The third feature, which concludes this edition, is by Anna D. Tomasi, Advocacy Officer for the Defence for Children International, elaborating on the call for a global study of children deprived of liberty.


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