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SAHRC
A complexity of complexion
18 September 2012
By Kayum Ahmed, SAHRC CEO
If you could choose to belong to any racial group, which one would you choose? Forget about the colour of your skin, your ethnic origin, or your mother tongue for a moment.
Would you stick to the racial group that you have historically been assigned to, or would you change your race?
COP 17: Heed Wangari Maathai’s Wisdom
02 October 2011
By Pregs Govender, SAHRC Deputy Chairperson, responsible for Basic Services & Health Care
Plant a tree - preserve our planet: a simple, profound idea. In 1977 Africa’s first Woman Nobel Peace Prize-winner, formed the Green Belt Movement. Built on the recognition and value of rural women’s contribution, it became a catalyst for global change. Wangari Muta Maathai understood humanity’s integral connection to the earth ‘I am part and parcel of the earth...whether you are alive or dead, you are still part of it.”This tribute honours her words of clarity and wisdom.
Opinion piece by the SAHRC and the SPII on their joint analysis of the 2011 budget
By the South African Human Rights Commission and Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII).
SAHRC participates at the Global Child Forum
Government vow to be more responsive at the National Information Officers Forum
SAHRC appoints new CEO
Twenty-five years of children's rights
The impact of migration and equality on children
Commissioner Malatji conducts inspections of special needs schools to observe if compliance with the Convention of Rights of Persons with Disability
Environment, Natural Resources, Rural Development and Children
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