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Search the Centre for Child LawLatest NewsSeminar on child rights litigation in Eastern and Southern Africa The Centre together with Save the Children Sweden hosted a seminar on Strategic Impact Litigation on Children’s Rights in Eastern and Southern Africa. The seminar was held over a 3 day period, from the 31st of October to the 2nd of November 2011. Participants invited to attend the seminar were from a number of southern and eastern African countries. These participants were representative of various civil society organizations and legal practitioners, all interested in and working towards the advancement and enforcement of children’s rights. Strategic impact litigation, as a tool to advance and protect children’s rights, is used by very few practitioners and is not widely known and understood. The aim of the seminar was increase the participants’ awareness and understanding of strategic impact litigation as a tool to advance the rights of children in their respective countries. A number of speakers gave presentations at the seminar, giving our participants an overview of different elements of strategic litigation could be used in relation to children’s rights. Ann Skelton and Karabo Ngidi gave presentations on the first day on the nature of strategic impact litigation, such as
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