Alright guys these kind of stories always get it going because the story Author is a TROLL.
Can you please do a little verification before you just decide to fall into the trap and do your best impression of or wear your "I love Greta T-Shirt".View attachment 587880
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LOOK AT THE AUTHOR - Can you imagine someone more willing to put SPIN on anything for their own BS purposes.
THIS FB WARRIOR HAS A GRAND TOTAL OF ABOUT 700 FOLLOWERS ON ALL HIS FB PAGES.
Louise van dere Merwe
Managing Trustee The Humane Education Trust
THE HUMANE EDUCATION TRUST
INCORPORATING COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING (SOUTH AFRICA) AND ANIMAL VOICE
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Director Nature Based Education Cape Town South Africa
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SA Representative Compassion in World Farming, South Africa
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2. Did anyone actually read the report themselves? Source it?
Have a look at the CONTEXT of the comment.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2024/...inety-fifth-session-after-adopting-concluding
In the light of its general comment No. 13 (2011) on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence and targets 5.2, 16.1 and 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals,
the Committee urges the State party to: (
SOUTH AFRICA)
Abuse and neglect, including sexual exploitation and abuse
25. The Committee welcomes the operationalisation of the Child Protection Register and the equipment of Courts and police stations with the child-friendly rooms. It however remains deeply concerned about:
(a) The high prevalence of violence against children, particularly sexual exploitation and abuse, domestic violence and attacks against children with albinism;
(b) The weak implementation of legislation, policy and programmes;
(c) The high prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence, particularly in schools and online;
(d) Lack of resources for the implementation of child protection programmes and services;
(e) The low levels of reporting and prosecution and the high level of impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of violence, including sexual exploitation and abuse of children, particularly of teachers.
26. In the light of its general comment No. 13 (2011) on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence and targets 5.2, 16.1 and 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee urges the State party to:
(a) Strengthen measures to eradicate all forms of violence against children, particularly sexual and gender-based violence, domestic violence and violence against children with albinism;
(b) Address the root causes of violence and abuse, such as social and gender norms, unequal allocation of resources between rural and urban areas and underfunding of protection programmes;
(c) Provide adequate resources for the implementation of the National Child Care and Protection Policy, the GBVF National Strategic Plan 2020-2030, the National Integrated Prevention Strategy on Femicide Emergency Response Plan, the SOP for the Employers of Educators protocol, and other programmes and initiatives aimed at protecting children from all forms of violence, abuse and neglect;
(d) Review and update the School Safety Framework and strictly investigate all cases of violence, including sexual and gender-based violence at schools and ensure that perpetrators are duly sanctioned;
(e) Respond to all manifestations of child sexual exploitation and abuse online, including by strengthening professional capacity and software tools to detect and investigate such abuse, promoting training for parents and teachers about risks online and the risks associated with sexting, ensuring and promoting accessible, confidential, child-friendly and effective channels for reporting all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse and encouraging children to make use thereof;
(f) Ensure that all cases of the abuse of children, including sexual abuse, are promptly reported and investigated, applying a child-friendly and multisectoral approach with the aim of avoiding the revictimization of the child, that perpetrators are prosecuted and duly sanctioned and that reparations are provided to victims, as appropriate;
(g) Ensure the allocation of adequate human, technical and financial resources to strengthen the prevention and early intervention services, including the community-based services for orphans and vulnerable children such as Risiha programme.
Harmful practices
27. The Committee remains concerned about the harmful practices carried out on children in the State party, including the abduction of girls for the purpose of forced marriage (ukuthwala), child and forced marriage, so-called “virginity testing”, witchcraft, violent or harmful initiation rites, and female genital mutilation. Recalling CRC/C/ZAF/CO/3-6 joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/general comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2019) on harmful practices, and taking note of target 5.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recalls its previous recommendations11 and urges the State party to:
(a) Expedite the finalisation and passing of the Amendment Marriage Bill and the Children’s Amendment Bill to remove all exceptions that allow marriage for those under 18 years of age and take all necessary measures to eliminate child marriages;
(b) Expedite the adoption of legislation that criminalizes harmful practices against and girls, such as ukuthwala;
(c) Develop awareness-raising campaigns and programmes on the harmful effects of child and forced marriage on the physical and mental health and well-being of girls, targeting households, local authorities, religious leaders and judges and prosecutors;
(d) Explicitly prohibit and eradicate virginity testing for girls, irrespective of their age, and design and implement effective education campaigns to combat traditional and family pressures on girls and women in favour of this practice;
(e) Strengthen the implementation of the regulation of the male customary initiations, by stringent selection and accreditation or licensing criteria for initiation schools, pre-admission medical examinations for prospective initiates, strict enforcement of prescribed age limits for initiates, accurate record keeping of enrolled initiates from entry to completion, and compliance with strict monitoring and oversight requirements by authorized government agencies; also protect children from the vicarious effects of exposure to violence inflicted on animals such as during Trophy Hunting;
The authors used trophy hunting as an example "such as". Ill informed obviously, but it does not really present any form or substance in the report.
But the TROLL sure got you all spun out!
Have a great weekend.
I know this is true. It's was in print!
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