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Yesterday marked World Children’s Day, and the United Nations called for governments, civic organisations and ordinary people globally to “put children back on the agenda”. There are several ways this could be done. For instance, Julia Sloth-Nielsen argues, children’s access across African countries to functional justice systems that are sensitive to their needs, could be dramatically improved. And Katharine Hall unpacks how South Africa’s history has left the majority of children living without both parents - and why thoughtful policies are needed to take different forms of
“family” into account.
The world map has changed dramatically over hundreds of millions of years. For instance, large parts of the southernmost part of a supercontinent called Gondwana (including what we know today as South Africa, Antarctica, Falkland Islands and parts of South America) were situated over the South Pole. Cameron Penn-Clarke explains what he’s discovered about a mysterious extinction event by studying rocks, minerals and sediment dating back
to this time, which was called the Devonian period.
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Many children don’t receive the treatment they deserve.
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Julia Sloth-Nielsen, University of the Western Cape
When children are drawn into their countries' informal justice systems, their human rights are often threatened.
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South Africa has one of the lowest rates of parents living with their children in the world.
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Katharine Hall, University of Cape Town
The diversity of families is one of the important underlying themes of the South African Child Gauge 2018.
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Science + Technology
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Cameron Penn-Clarke, University of the Witwatersrand
A record of sea-level change from 400 million years ago in South Africa, reveals how ecosystems and environments collapsed at the South Pole.
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Health + Medicine
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Samantha Winter, Rutgers University
Women in developing countries are burdened by the lack of access to proper toilets in their homes, communities, schools and public spaces.
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Arts + Culture
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Michael Godby, University of Cape Town
In Terry Kurgan’s book family history, however tortuous, is subsumed into a greater history of the greatest atrocity.
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From our international editions
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Rogelio Luque-Lora, University of Cambridge; Bill Adams, University of Cambridge; Chris Sandbrook, University of Cambridge
Conservation surveillance can generate fear and anger among local people.
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Katja Ziegler, University of Leicester
What role do EU institutions and the parliaments of 27 member states have in agreeing the next steps of the Brexit process.
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