Attention: Editors and Reporters
20 February 2023

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in Mpumalanga will be conducting a human rights capacity building workshop for faith-based organisations as strategic stakeholders on Mental Health – Promoting and Protecting Human Rights.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

20 February 2023

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in Western Cape will be conducting outreach work in the Central Karoo District including stakeholder engagements and human rights champions workshop.

The objective of the stakeholder engagements is to engage with government departments, civil society organisations and communities with the view to heightening awareness about human rights and institutions that can help with redress for human rights violations, with a specific focus on the role of the Commission in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

20 February 2023

The SAHRC Eastern Cape provincial office will be embarking on various monitoring activities in Sarah Baartman District and Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality this week. Section 184 (1) (c) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa states that the Commission must monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic. 

17 February 2023

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution) recognises equality as a value which informs basic rights, and it also protects the right to equality as enshrined in section 9. Section 9 prohibits discrimination on the basis of amongst others, gender, sex, and sexual orientation. In line with section 9(4) of the Constitution, the State has promulgated a legislation which promote equality and prevent unfair discrimination, namely, the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act No. 4 of 2000 (Equality Act). The Equality Act makes it unlawful to unfairly discriminate against anyone on the prohibited grounds of gender, sex, and sexual orientation. The Act also prohibits harassment, hate speech, and the dissemination and publication of unfair discriminatory information on the basis of these discriminatory grounds.

15 February 2023

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution) provides that everyone has the right to have access to sufficient food and water. Section 27(2) of the Constitution further states that the State must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of the right of access to water. In order to give effect to the right of access to water, the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa (the Parliament) enacted the Water Services Act No. 108 of 1997 (the Water Services Act, 1997).

14 February 2023

Attention: Editors and Reporters

In the past year, the Free State Health Department has recorded an alarming number of hundred and fifty (150) births in just four months for girls aged between ten and fourteen in the Thabo Mofutsanyana District. This has been recorded the highest number of teenage pregnancies in the Free State province. 

 

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14 February 2023

The South African Human Rights Commission Gauteng provincial office will conduct a human rights awareness and capacity building workshop for the Ikaneng Old Age Home. The capacity building workshop is aimed at empowering Human Rights Awareness in the province by training Community Based Organisations and Non-Profit Organisations about human rights and structures that can help with redress for human rights violations with a specific focus on the role of the Chapter Nine Institutions in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights. 

14 February 2023

Attention: Editors and Reporters

 

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province will be investigating complaints received and conduct monitoring in the Namakwa District from Tuesday, 14 February to Friday, 17 February 2023.

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13 February 2023

SAHRC Western Cape provincial office to conduct stakeholder engagements and human rights champions workshop in the West Coast district.

The objective of the stakeholder engagements is to engage with government departments, civil society organisations and communities with the view to heightening awareness about human rights and institutions that can help with redress for human rights violations, with a specific focus on the role of the Commission in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Friday, 10 February 2023

The SAHRC KwaZulu Natal provincial office will hold engagements with various disaster management centres in the province to assess governments response to the KZN April 2022 Floods. This follows reports provided by the Provincial Government to the Commission on the progress of relief measures undertaken. The Commission has since the advent of the flood disaster been engaged in multi-disciplinary interventions aimed at monitoring and protecting the rights of flood victims.