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- Addresses crucial issues regarding the guardianship of children in Africa
- Makes recommendations for policy change
- Provides guidance and direction for the existing gap in national and international laws about the regulation of guardianship in Africa
- Offers a concise and critical resource for academics, researchers and professionals interested in the issue of legal guardianship in Africa
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This brief reference surveys the national policy of three representative African countries on the legal guardianship of children who are without parents or families. Focusing on the widely varying legal systems of Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa, and Uganda, the authors highlight guardianship as emblematic of the continent’s shortcomings in child protection laws. The book’s key objective is bridging the communal aspects of traditional African society with the global standards set forth by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international entities. To this end, the three frameworks discussed here are compared and their strengths and limitations evaluated as applied to child protection standards in terms of core guardianship issues:
- Holders of parental authority and responsibilities
- Appointment of a legal guardian
- Who qualifies as a legal guardian?
- Responsibilities of a legal guardian in relation to the child
- Termination of guardianships
The primary audience for Perspectives on the Legal Guardianship of Children in Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Uganda includes academics, researchers, and students in the fields of children’s rights, human rights, legal guardianship, and international law. It will also prove a useful reference for NGOs that focus on children’s rights, social workers and practitioners operating within the context of these three countries, professionals working within the African human rights system, and governmental law- and policymakers.
Keywords
- Children's rights in Africa
- Legal guardianship of children in Africa
- African regional human rights
- Guardianship of children in South Africa
- Guardianship of children in Uganda
- Guardianship of children in Cote D'Ivoire
- protection of orphans and vulnerable children
- Children's Act of South Africa
- Family and caregiving in Africa
- Legal parents
- termination of guardianship
Authors and Affiliations
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Centre for Postgraduate Legal Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Rofiah Ololade Sarumi, Ann Strode
About the authors
Professor Ann Elaine Strode is the Academic Leader of Socio-Legal Studies at the School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She teaches constitutional and human rights law to second year LLB and Legal Studies (non LLB) students. Before joining the University Ann worked as a human rights lawyer for a number of NGOs working on socialjustice issues. During this time she worked extensively on programmes addressing HIV as a human rights issue. She also spent a number of years in the HIV/AIDS Directorate at the Department of Health in Pretoria developing HIV policy for the new democratic government. Achievements included; being a member of the South African Law Reform’s Commission’s Project Committee on AIDS which made five legal and policy recommendations to various government departments, assisting with drafting of the sections on HIV in the Employment Equity Act and assisting in the development of the first para-legal manual on AIDS and the law. Since joining the University in 2001, Ann has re-focused her work around research and teaching.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives on the Legal Guardianship of Children in Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Uganda
Authors: Rofiah Ololade Sarumi, Ann Strode
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Social Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76559-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76558-7Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76559-4Published: 23 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2195-3104
Series E-ISSN: 2195-3112
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 73
Topics: Social Work, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Public International Law