oa ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa - Editorial

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Extracted from text ... Editorial by Sibonile Khoza We are pleased to present the second edition of ESR Review for 2003. This edition features recent legislative developments relating to children's socio-economic rights in South Africa. During the last nine years, South Africa has shown commitment to protecting children's rights in several ways. Key to these was its ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1995 and the adoption of the 1996 Constitution, which includes special protection for children in section 28. Recently, the country has shown its intention to give legal effect to these commitments through the proposed ..