Children's Rights in Namibia

Children's Rights in Namibia

Author: Oliver Christian Ruppel

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The book brings together articles on childrens rights from different angels on the protection and promotion of childrens rights in Namibia. Comment 5 copies.


Children's Rights in Africa

Children's Rights in Africa

Author: Julia Sloth-Nielsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1317167538

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection is anchored in an African conception of children's rights and the law, and reflects contemporary discourses taking place in the region of the children's rights sphere. The majority of contributors are African and adopt an individual approach to their topic which reflects their first-hand experience. The book focuses on child rights issues which have particular resonance on the continent and the chapters span themes which are both broad and narrow, containing subject matter which is both theoretical and illuminated by practice. The book profiles recent developments and experiences in furthering children's legal rights in the African context, and distils from these future trends the specific role that the law can play in the African children's rights environment.


The status of the implementation of the African Children’s Charter: A ten-country study

The status of the implementation of the African Children’s Charter: A ten-country study

Author: Elvis Fokala

Publisher: Pretoria University Law Press

Published: 2022-06-01

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 2020, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) celebrates 30 years since its adoption. To date, 50 African States have ratified the ACRWC, and 28 have submitted the initial report, 12 have submitted both initial and periodic reports to the African Committee of Experts on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) on the implementation of the ACRWC and have received recommendations from the ACERWC. To ascertain the extent of children’s rights protection in Africa, the Centre for Human Rights was commissioned to undertake a study on the implementation of the ACRWC in 10 countries, namely: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Namibia, Sudan and Tanzania. In-country researchers were engaged to collect data using desk-based research to obtain information consisting of literature, documents and online sources that was then thematically analysed.


Children’s Rights and the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility

Children’s Rights and the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility

Author: Don Cipriani

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1317167597

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Children of almost any age can break the law, but at what age should children first face the possibility of criminal responsibility for their alleged crimes? This work is the first global analysis of national minimum ages of criminal responsibility (MACRs), the international legal obligations that surround them, and the principal considerations for establishing and implementing respective age limits. Taking an international children's rights approach, with a rich theoretical framework and the vitality of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this work maintains a critical perspective, such as in challenging the assumptions of many children's rights scholars and advocates. Compiling the age limits and statutory sources for all countries, this book explains the broad historical origins behind most of them, identifying the recurring practical challenges that affect every country and providing the first comprehensive evidence that a general principle of international law requires all nations, regardless of their treaty ratifications, to establish respective minimum age limits.


Namibia's Children

Namibia's Children

Author: Michaela Fink

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 3839456673

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Many children in Namibia find themselves facing a social crisis. They have been abandoned or abused, are malnourished, homeless, or live in shacks that barely provide any protection. However, amidst these disastrous living conditions, children have developed remarkable survival skills, and come up with equally clever and disillusioned analyses of their situation. For three years, Michaela Fink and Reimer Gronemeyer conducted interviews in Namibia with women who take care of vulnerable children. The book gives these children a voice in interviews and essays.


What's Wrong with Children's Rights

What's Wrong with Children's Rights

Author: Martin Guggenheim

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2007-09-30

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780674038028

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Children's rights": the phrase has been a legal battle cry for twenty-five years. But as this provocative book by a nationally renowned expert on children's legal standing argues, it is neither possible nor desirable to isolate children from the interests of their parents, or those of society as a whole. From foster care to adoption to visitation rights and beyond, Martin Guggenheim offers a trenchant analysis of the most significant debates in the children's rights movement, particularly those that treat children's interests as antagonistic to those of their parents. Guggenheim argues that "children's rights" can serve as a screen for the interests of adults, who may have more to gain than the children for whom they claim to speak. More important, this book suggests that children's interests are not the only ones or the primary ones to which adults should attend, and that a "best interests of the child" standard often fails as a meaningful test for determining how best to decide disputes about children.


Revisiting Children's Rights

Revisiting Children's Rights

Author: Deirdre Fottrell

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-07-26

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9004478434

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, passed in 1989, was the first universal treaty dedicated solely to the promotion and protection of the interests of children. In its first decade the Convention achieved near-universal ratification and is now the most widely ratified human rights treaty ever. In addition, as a consequence of its influence, children's human rights have been mainstreamed and are now prioritised at all levels within the United Nations and other regional organisations. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the first decade of the Convention. It also brings together leading scholars and activists who place the Convention in a wider context and revisit contemporary debates and controversies in children's rights to assess the extent to which these issues have been influenced by the Convention in its first decade.


Constitutional Rights in Namibia

Constitutional Rights in Namibia

Author: Gino J. Naldi

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book focuses on the constitutional developments in Namibia since 1990. It begins with an account of Namibia's struggle for self-determination that serves to put the Namibian constitution in context and then proceeds to consider the principal features of the Namibian constitution, the organs of state and the fundamental principles that provide a framework for the effective functioning of a democratic state. It goes on to examine in depth the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and freedoms protected by the Declaration of Rights, analysing the relevant jurisprudence of the Namibian courts in the light of international human rights law.


Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Justice

Author: John A. Winterdyk

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1466579684

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Juvenile justice has been and remains a topical issue at national and international levels. There are various standards and guidelines for administration, but six major models characterize juvenile justice systems worldwide: participatory, welfare, corporatism, modified justice, justice, and crime control. Juvenile Justice: International Perspectiv