22 November 2022
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The Eastern Cape Provincial Office (“ECPO”) is cognisant that it has to create, maintain and improve close relationships with key acting agents and role player in order to fulfil its mandate and to ensure that human rights are realised in the province. It is in light of this view that the ECPO has identified Metropolitan and District Municipalities as key role players in the realisation of human rights in the province.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
20 November 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission Gauteng provincial office (GPO) will conduct a capacity building workshop for Human Rights Champions/ Monitors (HRC) in Boipatong, Vanderbijlpark. The capacity building workshop is aimed at empowering Human Rights Champions 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.
20 November 2022
Attention: Editors and Reporters
In April 2022, disruptive and heavy rains led to localized flooding of vulnerable settlements, infrastructure, roads, low-lying areas and bridges within the Eastern Cape Province. Damage was reported in areas within the Alfred Nzo, Chis Hani, Amathole as well as the Joe Gqabi and OR Tambo District Municipalities. In the aftermath of the flood disaster, the Eastern Cape Provincial Office (“ECPO”) conducted monitoring visits in the affected areas to assess the damage caused by the floods and the progress made by government to respond to the reported damage caused by the floods.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
16 November 2022
The Mpumalanga Provincial Office (MPO) will be conducting a human rights capacity building workshop for Women in Traditional Leadership (Emakhosikati) as strategic stakeholders on the Impact of Migration and Equality on Children. Migration has a huge impact on children in that the enactment, implementation and any non-compliance with the migration laws affect migrant children as it does to their parents.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
14 November 2022
The Mpumalanga Provincial Office (MPO) will be conducting workshops 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.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
9 November 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) has received various complaints relating to statements made by the President of the Economic Freedom Fighters (“EFF”), Mr Julius Malema MP, as well as posters/banners displayed by the EFF at the meeting of the EFF’s Provincial People’s Assembly in the Western Cape on 16 October 2022.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
09 November 2022
The United Nations General Assembly designated 19 November as World Toilet Day. The Day seeks to raise awareness and foster action towards access to safe sanitation. The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. Target 6.2 of the SDG 6 calls for the achievement of safe toilets for all by 2030. Despite this noble goal, the world is seriously off track in achieving this target. According to estimations, the world will need to work four times faster to be able to deliver on the promise of safe toilets for all by 2030.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
08 November 2022
The South African Human Rights Commission (‘the Commission’) Gauteng Provincial Office is conducting various monitoring activities across the province. Section 184 (1) (c) of the Constitution states that the Commission must monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic.
Understanding PAIA
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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