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Title The relevance of culture and religion to the understanding of children's rights in South Africa
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/2165/294
Date 2007
Author(s) Moyo, Precillar
Abstract The aim of this paper is to explore the influence of culture and religion on the rights of the child from a South African perspective. This paper does not engage in a debate about whether children's rights are universal or not. The underlying premise is that children's rights are universal. The paper simply uses the universalism and cultural relativism debate as an entry point to a discussion of children's rights in the South Africa. It will explore the extent to which culture and religion influence and impact the interpretation of children's constitutional rights which are modelled on the CRC. The paper will therefore critically and comparatively consider how South African courts have attempted to reconcile universal norms with historical, cultural and religious peculiarities in defining rights and their resultant effect on children and their welfare.
Subject(s) Convention on the Rights of the Child; CRC; municipal level
Language en
Type of publication Thesis
Format 577034 bytes; application/pdf
Repository Cape Town - Lawspace, University of Cape Town
Added to C-A: 2008-12-22;02:27:37