A maturing manifesto: The constitutionalisation of children’s rights in South African jurisprudence 2007-2012

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dc.contributor.authorSloth-Nielsen, Julia
dc.contributor.authorKruuse, Helen
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-12T12:41:09Z
dc.date.available2018-09-12T12:41:09Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis article represents the next in a series of five-year overviews of children’s rights in the courts in South Africa. Using the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Welfare of Children as a point of departure, the study suggests that it is in the public sphere that children’s rights have had their most impact in the period under review. The article highlights eight areas of distinction in this five-year period: these include judicial approval of resource mobilisation for the fulfilment of children’s rights, emphasis on the quality of and standards in education; the development of innovative remedies to deal with unreasonable state measures affecting children, and an increasing focus on the right to dignity of the child. The authors conclude that the scope of the cases cited points to the growing insertion of children’s rights considerations in increasingly diverse areas of legal interaction. Furthermore, the authors posit that the CRC and ACRWC – together with non-binding sources of international law – have substantively informed and enriched the jurisprudence of South African courts.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSloth-Nielsen, J. & Kruuse, H. (2013). A maturing manifesto: The constitutionalisation of children’s rights in South African jurisprudence 2007-2012. International Journal of Children’s Rights, 21: 646–678. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02102005en_US
dc.identifier.issn0927-5568
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02102005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4041
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherBrill Academic Publishersen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02102005
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectChildren’s separate interestsen_US
dc.subjectResource mobilisationen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectInnovative remediesen_US
dc.subjectThe right to dignityen_US
dc.subjectThe constitutional childen_US
dc.subjectConvention on the Rights of the Childen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Childen_US
dc.subjectNon-binding sources of international lawen_US
dc.titleA maturing manifesto: The constitutionalisation of children’s rights in South African jurisprudence 2007-2012en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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