Ann Skelton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3916623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Skelton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Skelton |
| SIGNATURE | SKELTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4320-8904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The role of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in strengthening accountability for attacks on education in armed conflict
Education is increasingly under attack in situations of armed conflict, with increasing incidence of schools bombed, repurposed for military use, education politicized, and children denied access to learning. This 1 opinion piece examines how the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) is responding to these violations by integrating international humanitarian law (IHL), international human rights law (IHRL), international crimina…
A case for enhanced collaboration between experts and diplomats in the United Nations to enhance girls’ rights
Age determination of unaccompanied migrant children
Cash strapped! Can the multi-lateral human rights system survive the UN financial crisis
The United Nations is facing a financial emergency so acute that it threatens not only the day-to-day functioning of its institutions but also the very architecture of the multilateral human rights system. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the institutional anchor of global rights protection, recently announced a shortfall of around US $60 million in its core budget, having received only US $179 million of the US $246 …
Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’
The last three decades have seen an explosion of academic, advocacy and policy-maker interest in both the theory and the practice of children’s rights. There is a growing global body of strategic litigation focused on the advancement of those rights through positive legal and/or social change. In this context, child rights have primarily played an ‘outward-facing’ role: used as a schema that should constrain or mandate the actions of external dec…
Separation of children from parents in situations of migrancy
The right to basic education
The developing South African jurisprudence on the right to basic education suggests that the courts have adopted a substantive approach to interpreting the right. The Supreme Court of Appeal in its judgment in the case of Minister of Basic Education v Basic Education for All held that every learner is entitled to a textbook in every subject at the commencement of the academic year. The judgment further explicitly noted that the corollary to this …
(De)Criminalizing Adolescent Sex
Age of consent criminal laws imposed on African states during colonialism were inherently patriarchal and gender-stereotypic, and continue to influence country approaches toward adolescent consensual sexual conduct. There are two major policy positions: a punitive and a nonpunitive approach. Most countries adopt the punitive approach. Mostly, legislation does not explicitly criminalize consensual sexual conduct between adolescents, and this leave…
Child Justice in South Africa
International law provides rights, rules and principles that guide the manner in which children in conflict with the law should be treated. When children’s rights are violated, this international law framework can be used by lawyers and courts to identify the nature of the violation and determine the remedies that must be taken to redress the harm and alter law or practice to ensure such breaches are avoided in the future. This article describes …
Broken Promises
Swaziland's Constitution of 2005 promised that every Swazi child would have the right to free primary school education, within three years of the constitution coming into operation. That date having passed, a civil society group took the matter to court. The case initially fared well, but in a subsequent application for performance on the original order, the court balked at making an immediately enforceable order, citing lack of resources as an o…
Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective
An unprecedented comparison of juvenile justice systems across the globe, Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective brings together original contributions from some of the world's leading voices. While American scholars may have extensive knowledge about other justice systems around the world and how adults are treated, juvenile justice systems and the plight of youth who break the law throughout the world is less often studied. This important volum…
Leveraging funds for school infrastructure
Girls’ Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa
This article explores girls' socio-economic rights fulfilment in South Africa. After setting out the international law context, the article turns to the lived reality of girls in this country through an examination of their rights to healthcare services, nutrition, social services and security, and shelter. The research indicates that whilst girls are babies and young children they enjoy relatively equal access with their male counterparts to soc…
Restorative Justice as a Framework for Juvenile Justice Reform
Journal Article Restorative Justice as a Framework for Juvenile Justice Reform: A South African Perspective Get access Ann Skelton Ann Skelton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Issue 3, 1 June 2002, Pages 496–513, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/42.3.496 Published: 01 June 2002
Providing Effective Representation for Children in a New Constitutional Era
(1998). Providing Effective Representation for Children in a New Constitutional Era: Lawyers in the Criminal and Children's Courts. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 539-559
On Becoming a Male Physical Education Teacher
In this paper I reflect upon my own experience of training to be a teacher of physical education (PE). I focus on two particular rituals — which I call ‘Entertainments Night’ and ‘The Greyhound Inn’ — in order to demonstrate how informal culture served to legitimate and reproduce a hegemonic form of masculinity within the student body. This seriously undermined those messages which were being transmitted, simultaneously, through the formal cultur…
On Becoming a Male Physical Education Teacher
In this paper I reflect upon my own experience of training to be a teacher of physical education (PE). I focus on two particular rituals — which I call ‘Entertainments Night’ and ‘The Greyhound Inn’ — in order to demonstrate how informal culture served to legitimate and reproduce a hegemonic form of masculinity within the student body. This seriously undermined those messages which were being transmitted, simultaneously, through the formal cultur…
Leveraging funds for school infrastructure
Separation of children from parents in situations of migrancy
On Becoming a Male Physical Education Teacher
In this paper I reflect upon my own experience of training to be a teacher of physical education (PE). I focus on two particular rituals — which I call ‘Entertainments Night’ and ‘The Greyhound Inn’ — in order to demonstrate how informal culture served to legitimate and reproduce a hegemonic form of masculinity within the student body. This seriously undermined those messages which were being transmitted, simultaneously, through the formal cultur…
Providing Effective Representation for Children in a New Constitutional Era
(1998). Providing Effective Representation for Children in a New Constitutional Era: Lawyers in the Criminal and Children's Courts. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 539-559
Restorative Justice as a Framework for Juvenile Justice Reform
Journal Article Restorative Justice as a Framework for Juvenile Justice Reform: A South African Perspective Get access Ann Skelton Ann Skelton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Issue 3, 1 June 2002, Pages 496–513, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/42.3.496 Published: 01 June 2002
Girls’ Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa
This article explores girls' socio-economic rights fulfilment in South Africa. After setting out the international law context, the article turns to the lived reality of girls in this country through an examination of their rights to healthcare services, nutrition, social services and security, and shelter. The research indicates that whilst girls are babies and young children they enjoy relatively equal access with their male counterparts to soc…
Leveraging funds for school infrastructure
Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective
An unprecedented comparison of juvenile justice systems across the globe, Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective brings together original contributions from some of the world's leading voices. While American scholars may have extensive knowledge about other justice systems around the world and how adults are treated, juvenile justice systems and the plight of youth who break the law throughout the world is less often studied. This important volum…
Broken Promises
Swaziland's Constitution of 2005 promised that every Swazi child would have the right to free primary school education, within three years of the constitution coming into operation. That date having passed, a civil society group took the matter to court. The case initially fared well, but in a subsequent application for performance on the original order, the court balked at making an immediately enforceable order, citing lack of resources as an o…
(De)Criminalizing Adolescent Sex
Age of consent criminal laws imposed on African states during colonialism were inherently patriarchal and gender-stereotypic, and continue to influence country approaches toward adolescent consensual sexual conduct. There are two major policy positions: a punitive and a nonpunitive approach. Most countries adopt the punitive approach. Mostly, legislation does not explicitly criminalize consensual sexual conduct between adolescents, and this leave…
Child Justice in South Africa
International law provides rights, rules and principles that guide the manner in which children in conflict with the law should be treated. When children’s rights are violated, this international law framework can be used by lawyers and courts to identify the nature of the violation and determine the remedies that must be taken to redress the harm and alter law or practice to ensure such breaches are avoided in the future. This article describes …
Separation of children from parents in situations of migrancy
The right to basic education
The developing South African jurisprudence on the right to basic education suggests that the courts have adopted a substantive approach to interpreting the right. The Supreme Court of Appeal in its judgment in the case of Minister of Basic Education v Basic Education for All held that every learner is entitled to a textbook in every subject at the commencement of the academic year. The judgment further explicitly noted that the corollary to this …
Turning the Rights Lens Inwards’
The last three decades have seen an explosion of academic, advocacy and policy-maker interest in both the theory and the practice of children’s rights. There is a growing global body of strategic litigation focused on the advancement of those rights through positive legal and/or social change. In this context, child rights have primarily played an ‘outward-facing’ role: used as a schema that should constrain or mandate the actions of external dec…
The role of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in strengthening accountability for attacks on education in armed conflict
Education is increasingly under attack in situations of armed conflict, with increasing incidence of schools bombed, repurposed for military use, education politicized, and children denied access to learning. This 1 opinion piece examines how the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) is responding to these violations by integrating international humanitarian law (IHL), international human rights law (IHRL), international crimina…
A case for enhanced collaboration between experts and diplomats in the United Nations to enhance girls’ rights
Age determination of unaccompanied migrant children
Cash strapped! Can the multi-lateral human rights system survive the UN financial crisis
The United Nations is facing a financial emergency so acute that it threatens not only the day-to-day functioning of its institutions but also the very architecture of the multilateral human rights system. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the institutional anchor of global rights protection, recently announced a shortfall of around US $60 million in its core budget, having received only US $179 million of the US $246 …
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Human rights (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Human Rights and Development (5 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Constitution (3 works)