In South Africa
In 1995, South Africa ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and committed to a range of obligations aimed at establishing and protecting the rights of children. The Child Care Act, (74 of 1983) and the Child Care Amendment Act, (86 of 1991; 13 of 1999) make sexual abuse of children a criminal offense.
Read more about this topic: Laws Regarding Child Sexual Abuse
Famous quotes containing the words south and/or africa:
“While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)