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Media Advisory: SAHRC North West Provincial Office will conduct a capacity building workshop with Community Human Rights Champions affiliated to CAOSA

Attention: Editors and Reporters

03 February 2022

On 3 February 2022, the North West Provincial Office of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will conduct a capacity building workshop with Community Human Rights Champions who are members of Community Advices Offices affiliated to the Community Advice Offices South Africa (“CAOSA”).

 The SAHRC and CAOSA have embraced community-centred approaches driven by a philosophy of reaching every community in South Africa to promote human rights awareness, monitor the observance of human rights and support the protection of rights by supporting access to justice.

The capacity building workshop is aimed at empowering the Community Human Rights Champions by heightening awareness about human rights and structures that can help with redress for human rights violations with a specific focus on the role of the SAHRC in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights. The capacity building workshop will enable participants to assist in identifying human rights violations in their communities and to refer same to the Commission; to conduct human rights awareness and constitutional education and to conduct human rights monitoring within their communities.

 

The capacity building workshop is scheduled to take place as follows: 

 

Venue:                 Elgro Hotel, Potchefstroom

Date:                    03 February 2022

Date:                    09h00 to 13h00

 

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For further information contact the SAHRC North West Provincial Manager, Mr Osmond Mngomezulu on 060 790 1476 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Adv. Oarabile Gaoraelwe on 0824045788 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

 

 

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