Who will remember the Children? The International Human Rights Movement and Juvenile Justice in Africa

Authors

Faisal Bhabha, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow
Cristina Candea

Keywords

Juvenile'; 'Justice'; 'Children's Rights'

Document Type

Article

English Abstract

Our goal in this paper is two-fold: we seek to evaluate the development of juvenile justice in Africa by making use of a thorough and ethical method of analysis. We begin with a contextual explanation of the children’s rights movement as it has developed on the continent. We then reframe David Kennedy’s ten-item critique of the international human rights movement into three broad categories. Using these categories, we evaluate the development of juvenile justice in sub-Saharan Africa as it has arisen out of the children’s rights movement.