10 March 2019

A person’s right to dignity and ‘security in and control over their body’, both in the Bill of Rights, provide for the acceptance of euthanasia, write Tseliso Thipanyane and Fikile Makane.

Human dignity is the essence of what defines us as individuals and as members of our respective societies and communities. There is no us or me without dignity, or botho or ubuntu, as referred to in the Sesotho and Nguni language groups in South Africa.

12 MARCH 2019

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) Gauteng Provincial Office in collaboration with the Constitution Hill will host a panel discussion on the theme “The Impact of Corruption on Human Rights”.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

12 March 2019  

The SAHRC Free State Provincial Office will host Legal Clinics/Help Desks on the 13th of March 2019 in Bloemfontein Communities. 

Attention: Editors and Reporters

12 March 2018

In the last few years, the South African Human Rights Commission in Mpumalanga (“Commission”) has received a number of complaints relating to sewerage spillages and waste water treatment challenges in Mpumalanga.

Attention: Editors and Reporters

12 March 2019

 

On 12 – 14 March 2019, the South African Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”), Western Cape Provincial Office (PO), will be hosting information sessions to amplify basic human rights awareness enshrined in Chapter 2 of the Constitution – the Bill of Rights. The information sessions are centered under the theme “Know Your Rights and Responsibilities”.

MEDIA STATEMENT

“Information is an asset, information is knowledge, and information is power”

6^th March 2019

Attention: Editors

Information regulators from around the globe are set to meet in Johannesburg from the 10-13 March 2019 at the Vodacom Commercial Park for the International Conference of Information Commissioners (the ICIC2019), an international gathering of Information Commissioners from more than twenty five (25) countries and representing all continents, who will gather to discuss the right of access to information (RTI).  The right to information is provided for in a number of human rights instruments internationally and regionally,  and in national constitutions globally.

05 March 2019

The neglect of women’s sexual and reproductive health is pervasive. Women continue to suffer discrimination in health related issues like menstruation. It is important to note that lack of access to sanitary towels not only has adverse effects on school attendance but it also has ripple effects on the economic development of communities and countries as a whole. It is not just the girls and women who benefit from having proper menstrual hygiene, the broader society and national economies can profit from better menstruation management. Therefore, women’s sexual and reproductive health are not just women’s issues but are societal issues.

Attention Editors and Reporters
5th March 2019

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission or SAHRC), invites editors, senior journalists and reporters to participate in a formal engagement with the Commission, the South African National Editor’s Forum (SANEF), other media and interested stakeholders to strengthen the Commission’s relationship with the media and to share its work in the last year.

Attention Editors and Reporters

5^th March 2019

Commissioner André Gaum and Commissioner Chris Nissen of the South African Human Rights Commission (Commission or SAHRC) will be visiting Fairdale Primary and High Schools, along with Tsitsa Primary School and Nalikamva Primary School in Mfuleni, Western Cape on Tuesday, the 5^th March 2019.