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.

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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.

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26 August 2022

On 26 August the South African Human Rights Commission (Commission) will, and through the KwaZulu Natal House of Traditional Leaders, host a women’s month event to engage with women traditional leaders on the gendered impact of climate change. The stakeholder engagement is hosted in partnership with the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities, Sonke Gender Justice, and the Legal Resources Centre.

26 August 2022

Attention: Editors and Reporters

In executing its mandate, the South African Human Rights Commission (The Commission) is constantly creating informal partnerships with community-based organisations and civil society organisations to act as the Commission’s primary point of entry in various local communities where the Commission is not present. A number of factors work in the favour of these organisations and structures as they are located in the areas where people live, speak the same language and are known and trusted by the members of the communities where they are located; are knowledgeable about local conditions and know the history and the needs of the local communities and are keen to contribute to the work of the Commission.

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25 August 2022

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will be conducting an Equality Workshop for Spur in Potchefstroom. The workshop is aimed at capacitating workers on the right to equality.

25 August 2022

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission, Eastern Cape Provincial Office (ECPO) working in partnership with the Eastern Cape Education Department ,Walter Sisulu University and Fort Hare University, will conduct workshops for schools in the Amathole East and West Districts in preparation of the moot court programme oral rounds to be held on 10 September 2022.

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24 August 2022

The Eastern Cape Provincial Office will conduct a human rights champion workshop on Wednesday, 24 August 2022. The identified human rights champions will be empowered on the mandate of the South African Human Rights Commission and how to be champions for human rights.

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Date: 23 August 2022

On Thursday, 25 August 2022, the South African Human Rights Commission’s Gauteng Provincial Office will host a stakeholder engagement on the notion of occupational health and safety as a human right.

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23 August 2022

The objective of the stakeholder engagements is to engage with government departments, civil society organisations and communities on human rights and the work of the Commission in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights.