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Bentley, K.A. (2005) Can there be any universal children's rights?. The international journal of human rights. 9(1):107-123.
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The article questions the normative universality of children?s rights by considering the ideal definition of childhood implicit in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international law documents. It questions whether this definition has any universal purchase in light of different conceptions of childhood held across the world. The article distinguishes between rights that ch...
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Bentley, K.A. (2003) Concepts of childhood and the "right" treatment of children: culture, realtivity and human rights. (Paper presented at the International Political Science Association Conference, Durban, June 2003.).
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This paper is intended for the purposes of discussion to raise questions, rather that present answers to the problem of the universality of children's rights.
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Bentley, K.A. (2002) Can there be any universal children's rights?: some considerations concerning relativity and enforcement. (Paper presented at the HSRC Seminar series, 6 November 2002).
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This paper is intended for the purposes of discussion to raise questions, rather than present answers to the problem of the universality of children?s rights. The paper considers the ideal definition of childhood implicit in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other domestic and international law documents, and questions whether or not this definition can have any universal p...
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Bentley, K.A. (2002) Concepts and standardsof children's rights: some considerations of relativity and enforcement. (Paper prepared for presentation at the seminar on "Statistics and human rights", Workshop 3: Groups facing particular vulnerability, Brussels, Belgium 27-29 November 2002.).
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This paper seeks to address the issue of children's rights and how their delivery may be assessed.
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Bentley, Kristina A (2004) The global debate on multiculturalism and women's human rights in South Africa. (HSRC baseline project report, March).
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Conducting research on the rights of women and children in South Africa, particularly from the perspective of their woeful under servicing, is a daunting task. On the face of it, it would seem that we in South Africa are very careless of the rights of our most vulnerable citizens. And yet in considering the" real" rights of women and children in this country (by which is meant those enshrined...
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Biersteker, L., Streak, J. & Gwele, M. (2008) Toward an adequate ECD centre subsidy for children under 5 in South Africa: a costing of centre delivery. In: The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development Coordinators' notebook: an international resource for early childhood; 30. Toronto: The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development. 37-40.
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The South African government has increasingly recognised the significance of investment in ECD services of different kinds to support child development and protect child rights. Primary health care is free for young children and for pregnant and lactating women, and 2.86 million children from birth to age 4 access a government-financed cash transfer via the Child Support Grant Programme. Since ...
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Bray, R. & Dawes, A. (2007) Monitoring the well-being of children: historical and conceptual foundations. In: Dawes, A., Bray, R. & Van der Merwe, A. (eds). Monitoring child well-being: a South African rights-based approach. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 5-28.
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Bray, R.G. & Dawes, A. (2007) A rights-based approach to monitoring the well-being of children in South Africa. In: Dawes, A., Bray, R. & Van der Merwe, A. (eds). Monitoring child well-being: a South African rights-based approach. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 29-52.
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Chisholm, L. (2007) Monitoring children's rights to education. In: Dawes, A., Bray, R. & Van der Merwe, A. (eds). Monitoring child well-being: a South African rights-based approach. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 147-158.
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Dawes, A. (2008) How will we know the children's act is making a difference to the situation of children?: a system for monitoring progress. (Paper presented to the NACCW Regional Conference, 2 July).
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Dawes, A. (2008) An integrated care and protection plan for children in the Western Cape. (Paper presented to the Minister of Social Development of the Western Cape, Paarl, 26 January).
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Dawes, A. (2007) An integrated care and protection plan for children in the Western Cape. (Commissioned by the Western Cape Provincial Government, May 2007).
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In spite of existing legislation, policies, strategies and interventions, the incidence of reported violations against children in the province is very serious and has been so far a number of years. Almost each day, the public is confronted with extensive media coverage the violence against children. This holds true for the entire country and even truer for the Western Cape Province. Childre...
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Dawes, A., Bray, R. & Van der Merwe, A. (eds). (2007) Monitoring child well-being: a South African rights-based approach. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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Practical and user-friendly, this volume provides an evidence and rights-based approach to monitoring the well-being of children and adolescents in South Africa. Drawing on international precedents, and extensive peer review processes, experts in various fields have developed this holistic set of indicators to enhance the monitoring of the status of children. Taking ideological cues from the c...
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Dawes, A. & Govender, A. (2007) The use of children in pornography in South Africa. (Draft report submitted to the Anti-child Pornography Task Team, The Film & Publications Board, June).
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Dawes, A. (2006) Bulgaria de-institutionalisation project: M&E tools training & pilot. (October).
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Dawes, A. (2005) Editorial: monitoring the rights and well-being of South African children?. Journal of child and adolescent mental health. 17(2):iii-iv.
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Dawes, A., Bray, R., Rama, S., Richter, L. & Esau, S. (2004) Monitoring child rights & wellbeing: A priority research initiative. (Invited address to the Seminar on the State of Knowing children's well-being from Children's perspectives, Unviersity of the Western Cape, 19-22 October).
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Dawes, A.R.L. & Rama, S. (2003) The CYFD child rights and well-being monitoring research programme. (Presented at the UNICEF External Project Review, at the Office of the Rights of the Child, The Presidency, Pretoria, 19 November).
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Hemson, D. & Shirley, R. (2007) Report on children collecting water route maps. (Commissioned by Water Research Council, January).
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Hemson, D. (2006) Young drawers of water: the burden on children in rural South Africa. (Paper presented at the International Sociological Association 2006 Congress, Joint session of RC10 and RC53: "Participation and childhood: consequences for social existence", 28 July).
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Makoae, M., Dawes, A., Loffell, J. & Ward, C.L. (2008) Children's court inquiries in the Western Cape. (Final report to the Research Directorate, Department of Social Development, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, June).
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Part I of the research undertaken on Children's Court Inquiries in the four magisterial districts in the Western Cape presents the findings with regard to the prevalence of child neglect and abuse in the areas under study by providing annual statistics of
children who were brought before the children's courts in 2006, and the profiles of the children and their caregivers. The report also prese...
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Richter, L.M. (2003) Baby rape in South Africa. Child abuse review. 12:392-400.
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In south Africa the rape of infants and toddlers occurs at allow but consistent level. Attempts to explain the rape of infants and toddlers include the socialization influences of men of the country's violent apartheid past, as well as virgin cleansing myths which have arisen in the context of the country's rampant HIV/AIDS epidemic. Added to this is an uneven child rights environment and a p...
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Streak, J., Dawes, A., Ewing, D., Levine, S., Rama, S. & Alexander, L. (2007) The causes, nature and impact of child work and labour in South Africa: a study of three purposively selected sites: final report. (Submitted to the Towards the Elimination of Child Labour Program (TECL) of the International Labour Organisation, August).
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This is the final report for the research project on child work and labour in agriculture commissioned by the Towards the Elimination of Child Labour Programme in South Africa (TECL) in May 2006. It was conducted by a team of researchers led by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)4, and is organised as follows. Section 1, the introduction explains the definition of child work and labour u...
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Swart-Kruger, J. (ed). (2000) Growing up in Canaansland: children's recommendations on improving a squatter camp environment: a site report in the international project: Growing up in cities. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers.
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Tlabela, K., van Zyl, J., Nkau, J. & Modiselle, S. (2004) Views and attitudes of members of the Mamelodi community regarding the care and support of orphans: findings of a survey and a series of in-depth interviews. (Conducted on behalf of the SOS Children's Village, January).
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Institutional care was one of the more important ways which care and support was provided to orphaned children for a considerable period of time. That was in addition to placing orphans in the care of foster homes or finding parents willing to adopt them. During the past decade, the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has made its mark on our society in a number of ways and this epidemic is also ...
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Van der Merwe, A. & Dawes, A. (2007) Monitoring child unintentional and violence-related morbidity and mortality. In: Dawes, A., Bray, R. & Van der Merwe, A. (eds). Monitoring child well-being: a South African rights-based approach. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 129-146.
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Ward, C., Dawes, A., Willenberg, I., Gwele, M. & Latief, S. (2007) Indicators for children, families and the elderly. (Report for the Research Directorate, Department of Social Development, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, March).
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Ward, C., Dawes, A., Willenberg, I., Gwele, M. & Latief, S. (2007) Indicators for children, families and the elderly: executive summary. (Report for the Research Directorate, Department of Social Development, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, March).
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Ward, C.L. (2007) Neighbourhood indicators: monitoring child rights and well-being at small-area level. In: Dawes, A., Bray, R. & Van der Merwe, A. (eds). Monitoring child well-being: a South African rights-based approach. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 73-92.
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