29 August 2022
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission (‘the Commission’) Gauteng Provincial Office is initiating the second leg of the investigation inquiry into continuing complaints or allegations of racial discrimination or discrimination in general in advertising within South Africa.
28 August 2022
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission (‘the Commission’) Gauteng Provincial Office is initiating the second leg of the investigation inquiry into continuing complaints or allegations of racial discrimination or discrimination in general in advertising within South Africa.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
26 August 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission working in partnership with the Western Cape Education Department, Legal Aid South Africa and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development will host the Provincial rounds of the Moot Court competition. The oral rounds are a platform used to gauge the participating schools with the aim of selecting a provincial team to represent the Western Cape at the national rounds to be held in Gauteng later this year.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
22 August 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) Eastern Cape provincial office will be embarking on various monitoring activities in Alfred Nzo and O.R. Tambo Districts. 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 an opportunity for the Commission to ensure redress and to ensure that human rights are upheld.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
19 August 2022
On 17 August, the Times Online published an article that implied that the MEC of Education in Gauteng, Panyaza Lesufi, was not opposed to the use of corporal punishment in schools to enforce discipline. If these insinuations by the Times Live report are indeed accurate, the South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) would be concerned, in light of the right to bodily and psychological integrity and the right not to be treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman and degrading manner and particularly given the lack of agency that learners have and the extremely violent society in which we live.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
15 August 2022
The SAHRC Western Cape provincial office will this week be embarking on various monitoring and advocacy activities in the Overberg District Municipality. 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 ensure redress and to ensure that human rights are upheld in the Republic.
The South African Human Rights Commission.
The Human Rights Commission is the national institution established to support constitutional democracy. It is committed to promote respect for, observance of and protection of human rights for everyone without fear or favour.
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