A developing dialogue – children’s rights, children’s law and economics: surveying experiences from Southern and Eastern African law reform processes

Sloth-Nielsen, Julia2013-11-292013-11-292008Sloth-Nielsen, J. (2008). A developing dialogue – children’s rights, children’s law and economics: surveying experiences from Southern and Eastern African law reform processes. Electronic Journal of Comparative Law, 12(3) <http://www.ejcl.org/123/art123-5.pdf>1387-3091http://hdl.handle.net/10566/887http://www.ejcl.org/123/art123-5.pdfLaw reform in southern and eastern African countries to domesticate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), to synthesize common, civil and customary laws, and to modernise and codify a myriad of outdated statutes affecting children that were inherited from the colonial era has been an ongoing project in numerous states in the region since the first comprehensive Children’s Act, that of Uganda, in 1996. These law reform processes are, in many instances, still ongoing.en© 2008 Sloth-Nielsen; licensee Tilburg University Schoordijk Institute. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.South African Law Reform CommissionChildren's ActChild Law ReformA developing dialogue – children’s rights, children’s law and economics: surveying experiences from Southern and Eastern African law reform processesArticle