Child murders a great concern for human rights commission: “It is thus clear that there is a need to promote, protect and monitor the rights of children to ensure that they thrive.”
The commission said it had visited several child and youth care centres and a school in the Western Cape to mark Child Protection week, which ended on Sunday.
“Given the climate we currently live in, there's a huge need to promote the rights of our children, especially within this national child protection week, when an 8-month-old child died in an unregistered creche,” said Baloyi.“Some of the concerns raised by the children were gangsterism, lack of security, lack of family support, child abuse in the homes, teenage pregnancy, poor sanitation and child prostitution.
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