Attention: Editors and Reporters
27 February 2023
The SAHRC Eastern Cape provincial office will be embarking on various monitoring activities in Ingquza Hill Local Municipality and O R Tambo District Municipalities. 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.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
23 February 2023
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) Mpumalanga Provincial Office is conducting a workshop to popularise and raise awareness about the Constitutional Court judgement which declared Section 10 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 invalid and inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (“the Constitution”) the extent that it prohibits an unmarried father from giving notice of the birth of his child under his surname, the absence of the child’s mother or without consent.
22 February 2023
Attention: Editors and Reporters
Government must respect, protect, and promote human rights. It must play a vital role in determining how to allocate and spend fiscus. If government has to deliver specific services, then this must clearly be reflected in the budget. The work on human rights budgeting also allows us to ask who participates in budgeting and how different social groups are affected. This means that priority must be given to critical areas such as education, social security, access to healthcare, housing, and employment. It also means focusing not only on who has access to goods and services, but also on continually improving the quality, availability, and affordability of those goods and services.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
21 February 2023
The South African Human Rights Commission in Gauteng Province is conducting a monitoring roadshow from the 20th of February 2023 to the 24th of February 2023.
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.
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.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
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.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
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.
10 February 2023
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has taken note of the severe flooding that has impacted the Komani area, in the Eastern Cape. We extend our deepest sympathies to those who have been affected by this natural disaster and have lost their homes and belongings.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
Thursday, 09 January 2023
In 2017 the SAHRC KwaZulu Natal Provincial Office released its investigative report on oncology services within the province. The report emanated from a complaint that alleged, among others, the lack of adequate provision of oncology services in the KZN Province. The report was shared with relevant stakeholders to action and to engage with the findings and recommendations in the report which sought to improve the state of oncology services and to manage the backlog of oncology patients that had arisen at the time. The SAHRC had received reports on the actions that were undertaken to comply with the recommendations in its report.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
06 February 2023
The SAHRC Eastern Cape provincial office is embarking on various monitoring activities in O.R. Tambo, Amathole and Chris Hani District Municipality this week. Section 184 (1) (c) of the South African Constitution states that the Commission must monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic. The role of monitoring and assessing human rights and potential human rights violations, provides for an opportunity for the Commission to inspect areas of potential violation, and facilitate redress where required.
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