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	AFRIQUE DU SUD : 23 garçons décèdent lors de circoncisions rituelles Vingt-trois sud-africains sont morts lors de circoncisions traditionnelles dans le nord-est du pays. Les garçons étaient âgés de 13 à 21 ans.	19/05/2013	RTL info
	SOUTH AFRICA: Over 20 boys die following circumcision ritual	16/05/2013	Reuters
	SOUTH AFRICA: School violence in South Africa: Results of the 2012 national school violence study The publication documents the extent and nature of violence, including corporal punishment and cyber-bullying, experienced by secondary school learners in South Africa. Based on a sample of 6299 learners and educators, the study follows-on from the 2008 national schools violence baseline study. The study shows that 22.2% of learners have experienced some form of inter-personal violence at school, while 20.9% have experienced cyber-bullying. the study also explores school violence in relation to experienced of violence in the home and community.	17/04/2013	Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention
	SOUTH AFRICA: Cardinal says paedophilia not a crime A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis this week has told the BBC that paedophilia is an illness and not a crime.	19/03/2013	Reuters
	SOUTH AFRICA: 'Over 25% of schoolgirls HIV positive' At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because "sugar daddies" are exploiting them, according to the Health ministry.	14/03/2013	BBC
	SOUTH AFRICA: UN chief urges more comprehensive approach to tackling sexual violence The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expressed Friday her shock and deep sadness at the atrocious rape, mutilation and murder of Anene Booysen, a 17-year-old South African woman, and urged a more comprehensive approach to tackling the “pandemic of sexual violence” affecting tens of thousands of women every year in South Africa.	11/02/2013	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
	SOUTH AFRICA: "Children's Right to Education in Hospital" A 32 page review for South Africa, and with insights from other countries, of the right of children to early childhood education and schooling when hospitalised.	11/02/2013	Terre des Hommes
	SOUTH AFRICA: Conditions of child inmates still poor The Department of Correctional Services has admitted that conditions in which children are held are still poor, despite a significant drop in their number.	15/01/2013	IOL News
	SOUTH AFRICA: Laws on teenage sex infringe children’s rights, high court finds The South African High Court has struck down laws criminalising consensual sexual acts between 12 and 16 year olds.	15/01/2013	Business Day
	CHILD DETENTION: Zimbabwean child migrants held in South African detention centres As thousands of Zimbabweans are deported from South Africa, hundreds of migrant children awaiting deportation are being held in appalling conditions in detention facilities near Johannesburg and Musina, despite calls from legal and medical human rights groups to improve conditions.	07/01/2013	Zimbabwe Independent
	SOUTH AFRICA: Child migrants illegally imprisoned Despite South African law prohibiting the detention of children for immigration purposes, according to Lawyers for Human Rights, a local NGO that conducts regular visits to immigration detention centres around the country, a significant and increasing number of children, as well as asylum seekers and refugees, are being routinely detained and deported.	20/09/2012	IRIN News
	SOUTH AFRICA: Children's Rights in UN Treaty Body Reports This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are available here: http://www.crin.org/resources/treaties/index.asp	17/08/2012	Child Rights International Network
	SOUTH AFRICA: Children's rights in the Special Procedures' reports This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, which are available as separate reports. Please note that the language may have been edited in places for the purpose of clarity.	07/08/2012	Child Rights International Network
	INHUMAN SENTENCING: Life imprisonment of children in the Commonwealth Report on life imprisonment sentences for children in the Commonwealth States.	01/08/2012	Child Rights International Network
	SOUTH AFRICA: Children in Prison	02/07/2012	Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative
	SOUTH AFRICA: Lack of road safety forces children to run the gauntlet Notorious murder statistics in South Africa are almost matched by its road fatalities – and it's often schoolchildren who die.	11/06/2012	The Guardian
	SOUTH AFRICA: Girl brides abducted as fabled HIV cure "There is a myth that if you sleep with a young girl who is a virgin and as a man you are HIV positive then HIV can be cured," says a children's rights advocate.	31/05/2012	CNN
	INHUMAN SENTENCING: Death Sentences and Executions in 2011	31/05/2012	Amnesty International
	SUDÁFRICA: De niñas a esposas, secuestradas como falsa cura para el VIH Algunos hombres toman ilegalmente como 'esposas' a las niñas porque, según una creencia moderna y escalofriante, eso los curará del VIH.	29/05/2012	CNN Mexico
	AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: The State of the World's Human Rights 2012	24/05/2012	Amnesty International
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