Programme News
12 January 2012
(News)
The Constitutional Court has ruled that parents of children who have been removed from their care by the state will now have access to an automatic review of that decision.
Child rights advocates say this will help fill a "lacuna" or loophole in the Children's Act that has in the past made it difficult for disenfranchised families to challenge state officials who have wrongfully...
17 August 2011
(News)
Sowetan : An Act protecting children's rights might be changed to give parents and caregivers more voice before children are removed from their care. The Constitutional Court heard yesterday that the Act infringed on the right of the child to family care or parental care. Ann Skelton, of the Centre for Child Law at the University of Pretoria, said parents and caregivers had to be interviewed...
10 August 2011
(News)
05 August 2011 | ILSE DE LANGE
JOHANNESBURG - A North Gauteng High Court judge yesterday ordered the Steve Biko Hospital in Pretoria to immediately recommence treatment of a four-year-old Zimbabwean girl, who is critically ill with a malignant brain tumour. The little girl’s father went to court with the help of Lawyers for Human Rights after the hospital told him his daughter’s...
30 March 2011
(Press release)
The North Gauteng High Court has issued an interim order today returning two children to their father pending the outcome of a final decision on the matter. The children had been removed from their father’s custody and care by the police because he had not yet paid lobola to his deceased life partner’s family.
LHR is encouraged by the court’s decision as...
29 March 2011
(News)
Pretoria News I Zelda Venter I
A father from Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, will on Tuesday turn to the Pretoria High Court for an urgent order to have his two small children returned to him after claims that social services removed the children after his wife died, because he had not yet paid all his lobola. The man, who cannot be identified to protect his children, filed papers against the...
25 August 2010
(Press release)
Press Release - 25 August 2010
The advent of the removal of children begging in the streets in Tshwane, some accompanying adults has the public raging with dissent. Jo’burg Child Welfare (JCW) has the following comments on this issue:
“We note that such children are exposed to a great many hazards and that there is an urgent need for intervention to improve their...
22 August 2010
(News)
Daar is nuwe hoop vir die blinde Zimbabwiese vrou wie se baba deur wetstoepassers uit haar arms geruk is terwyl sy op ’n straathoek gebedel het. Die beeldmateriaal van die getraumatiseerde vrou en haar huilende baba (18 maande) het lesers die afgelope week aangegryp en fel kritiek van menseregtegroepe ontlok. Die vrou se ander kind (4) is ook by haar afgeneem.
Rapport het gister...
3 March 2008
(News)
A blind father has finally been reunited with his nine-month-old daughter after a bitter legal battle.
And now lawyers want the courts to prevent social workers from taking children away from their biological parents on flimsy grounds.
The girl was taken away from her father in November last year, shortly after her mother's funeral.
The father, who can't be named to protect the child, looked...
1 October 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights releases report on" Protecting Minors from harmful content via mobile phones".
8 September 2004
(Press release)
An urgent application will be brought before the Pretoria High Court today by the Centre for Child Law and the court-appointed curator ad litem for 13 unaccompanied foreign children. The main purpose of the application is get a court order to force the Department of Social Development’s bring the children, presently detained in Dyambo Youth Centre, before the Krugersdorp Children’s Court in order...