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Media Advisory: SAHRC Western Cape Provincial Office to host advocacy and media interventions in the Central Karoo District Municipality

Attention: Editors and Reporters

24 June 2019

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will host advocacy and outreach interventions in the Laingsburg Local Municipality from 25-28 June 2019.

The interventions are designed to raise awareness on human rights; to build sustainable working relations with local stakeholders; to monitor places of detention; and to provide a platform for engagement with the Commission on matters that affect them.

 

The following interventions have been planned:

DATE

TIME

 

VENUE

INTERVENTION

  25 June 2019

 

         16h00

Laingsburg Police Station

 

Monitoring: Place Detention

  26 June 2019

 

         09h00

Matjiesfontein Community Hall

Community Outreach

  27 June 2019

         09h00

Laingsburg Thusong Centre

Community outreach

        14h00

Malan Jacobs Old Age Home

Information session – rights of the elderly

 

 28 June 2019

 

 

        08h30

Laingsburg Healthcare Centre

Information session – access to healthcare services



For more information contact SAHRC Acting Provincial Manager Ms. Bahia Sterris or Advocacy on 021 426 2277 and Research Officer Mr. Lesego Raphalane 021 426 2277/083 859 5949.

 

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