02 July 2014

ATTENTION: Editors and Reports


The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) would like to express its deepest concern at the continued deaths of the initiates at the circumcision schools across the country.

20th June 2014

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission invites members of the media to the release of a report on the effect of poverty in children.

MEDIA STATEMENT

08 June 2014

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has been monitoring the evictions of approximately 200 families that took place in Lwandle, in the Western Cape.

MEDIA STATEMENT

06 June 2014

ATTENTION: Editor and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is deeply concerned about the water contamination crisis and its resultant deaths in the Bloemhof region located in the North West Province. A water crisis has hit the communities of Bloemhof in the last week of May with allegations of a cholera outbreak and patients afflicted with diarrhoea.

20 May 2014

ATTENTION: Editors and Reporters

Education is an important tool for the development of an individual, society and the nation as a whole.

14 May 2014

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is deeply concerned at the sudden rush to complete oral evidence in the Farlam Commission of Inquiry headed by retired Judge Ian Farlam.

MEDIA STATEMENT

15th April 2014

Attention Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has rejected the complaint filed against the State Prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius trial currently underway in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.

24 March 2014

Attention: Editors and Reporters


The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) invites members of the media to a roundtable dialogue focusing on Equality to be held in Kliptown, Soweto.

Attention: Editor and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) notes with concern the incident that occurred at St Albans correctional center in Port Elizabeth between the night of the 2 March 2014 and the morning of 3 March 2014.

MEDIA STATEMENT

23th March 2014

Attention: Editors and Reporters

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) would like to respond to the Department of Water Affairs (DWA) following the release of its report on the right to access water and sanitation, last week.