Press Releases | Centre for Child Law

2022
- Centre for Child Law argues that the criminal justice system is not the correct forum to deal with children using addictive substances
  03 March 2022
- Centre for Child Law supports the application by the Children's Institute- represented by EELC to intervene in the matter of CCL v SACE which deals with the continued use of corporal punishment in schools
  16 March 2022
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2017
- “A crisis averted” orphaned children to receive foster child grant while long term solution being finalised
  27 November 2017
- Fate of school’s eviction to be decided on Monday
  31 July 2017
- Government fails children with mental health disabilities
  31 July 2017
- Pretoria High Court judgment protects the identities of child victims of crime
  11 July 2017
- Centre for Child Law supports investigations by Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Rights of Cultural‚ Religious and Linguistic Communities on deaths of child initiates
  13 March 2017
- Protection of the Rights of Learners Facing Eviction of Their Farm School From a Private Property
  2 March 2017
- Taking away children’s lifeline: Centre for Child Law concerned about threat of disruption to grant payments
  2 March 2017
- Protecting child victims of crime, and others, from further harm
  7 February 2017
- Centre for Child Law stands by report on Gauteng school shortage
  26 January 2017
2016
- Constitutional Court judgment on the arrest of children as a last resort
  11 August 2016
- Youths sentenced to Child and Youth Care Centres wrongly transferred to prison
  10 March 2016
- New court order in Eastern Cape schools' furniture saga
  26 January 2016
2015
- New immigration regulation: "It is a mess"
  16 July 2015
- Judgment on separated asylum seeker children: they will now be included in their caregiver's applications
  10 July 2015
- The African Day of the Child is over 'Now What?' - South Africa needs to do more to eliminate child marriages
  29 June 2015
- National Assembly decision on adolescent sex shows common sense among MPs
  18 June 2015
- Protecting child witnesses and victims when they testify in court
  01 June 2015
- Civil society organisations concerned about effects of article on provision of condoms to children younger than 12
  12 May 2015
- North Gauteng High Court asked to protect identity of child victim of crime
  21 April 2015
- A win for poor children in RAF payments case!
  20 April 2015
- Ukuthwala not a defence against rape of a child
  24 March 2015
- Agreement about Zephany's future signed today
  06 March 2015
- Parliamentary Hearings on addressing unhealthy adolescent sex - debates on consenting sex between teens continues
  04 March 2015
- Centre for Child Law requests the protection of the identity of child identified in public as 'Zephany Nurse'
  03 March 2015
- Centre for Child Law representing Northern Cape learner that was victim of sexual assault
  02 March 2015
- Centre for Child Law dismayed at distasteful and thoughtless reporting of the sexual assault of a Northern Cape Learner
  10 February 2015
- ACDP Steve Swart misleading comments on the proposed bill to decriminalise consensual sex between adolescents
  03 February 2015
- Sexual Offences Act Amendments on teen sexual Activity and the Sex Offender Register
  03 February 2015
- SA Govt's declaration on education mars the welcome ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
  20 January 2015

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