Prof. Ann Skelton
Professor Ann Skelton has worked as a children’s rights lawyer in South Africa for 25 years. She played a leading role in child law reform through her involvement with the committees of the South African Law Reform Commission that drafted the Child Justice Act and the Children’s Act. Ann is currently the Director of the Centre for Child Law and a Law Professor at the University of Pretoria, and is the incumbent in the UNESCO Chair: Education Law in Africa.
She is an advocate who often appears in the superior courts arguing children’s rights issues in public interest law matters. She is an internationally recognised researcher and has published widely. In 2012 she received the Honourary Worlds’ Children’s Prize, presented by the Queen of Sweden, and in 2016 the ‘Juvenile justice without borders’ award, presented by the International Juvenile Justice Agency. Ann is currently a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, her term of office is from March 2017 to February 2021.
She is an advocate who often appears in the superior courts arguing children’s rights issues in public interest law matters. She is an internationally recognised researcher and has published widely. In 2012 she received the Honourary Worlds’ Children’s Prize, presented by the Queen of Sweden, and in 2016 the ‘Juvenile justice without borders’ award, presented by the International Juvenile Justice Agency. Ann is currently a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, her term of office is from March 2017 to February 2021.