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Attention: Editors and Reporters
21 February 2023
The South African Human Rights Commission in Gauteng Province is conducting a monitoring roadshow from the 20th of February 2023 to the 24th of February 2023.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
20 February 2023
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in Mpumalanga will be conducting a human rights capacity building workshop for faith-based organisations as strategic stakeholders on Mental Health – Promoting and Protecting Human Rights.
20 February 2023
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in Western Cape will be conducting outreach work in the Central Karoo District including stakeholder engagements and human rights champions workshop.
The objective of the stakeholder engagements is to engage with government departments, civil society organisations and communities with the view to heightening awareness about human rights and institutions that can help with redress for human rights violations, with a specific focus on the role of the Commission in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
20 February 2023
The SAHRC Eastern Cape provincial office will be embarking on various monitoring activities in Sarah Baartman District and Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality this week. Section 184 (1) (c) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa states that the Commission must monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic.
17 February 2023
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution) recognises equality as a value which informs basic rights, and it also protects the right to equality as enshrined in section 9. Section 9 prohibits discrimination on the basis of amongst others, gender, sex, and sexual orientation. In line with section 9(4) of the Constitution, the State has promulgated a legislation which promote equality and prevent unfair discrimination, namely, the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act No. 4 of 2000 (Equality Act). The Equality Act makes it unlawful to unfairly discriminate against anyone on the prohibited grounds of gender, sex, and sexual orientation. The Act also prohibits harassment, hate speech, and the dissemination and publication of unfair discriminatory information on the basis of these discriminatory grounds.
15 February 2023
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution) provides that everyone has the right to have access to sufficient food and water. Section 27(2) of the Constitution further states that the State must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of the right of access to water. In order to give effect to the right of access to water, the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa (the Parliament) enacted the Water Services Act No. 108 of 1997 (the Water Services Act, 1997).
14 February 2023
Attention: Editors and Reporters
In the past year, the Free State Health Department has recorded an alarming number of hundred and fifty (150) births in just four months for girls aged between ten and fourteen in the Thabo Mofutsanyana District. This has been recorded the highest number of teenage pregnancies in the Free State province.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
14 February 2023
The South African Human Rights Commission Gauteng provincial office will conduct a human rights awareness and capacity building workshop for the Ikaneng Old Age Home. The capacity building workshop is aimed at empowering Human Rights Awareness in the province by training Community Based Organisations and Non-Profit Organisations about human rights and structures that can help with redress for human rights violations with a specific focus on the role of the Chapter Nine Institutions in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights.
14 February 2023
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province will be investigating complaints received and conduct monitoring in the Namakwa District from Tuesday, 14 February to Friday, 17 February 2023.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
13 February 2023
SAHRC Western Cape provincial office to conduct stakeholder engagements and human rights champions workshop in the West Coast district.
The objective of the stakeholder engagements is to engage with government departments, civil society organisations and communities with the view to heightening awareness about human rights and institutions that can help with redress for human rights violations, with a specific focus on the role of the Commission in promoting, monitoring and protecting human rights.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
Friday, 10 February 2023
The SAHRC KwaZulu Natal provincial office will hold engagements with various disaster management centres in the province to assess governments response to the KZN April 2022 Floods. This follows reports provided by the Provincial Government to the Commission on the progress of relief measures undertaken. The Commission has since the advent of the flood disaster been engaged in multi-disciplinary interventions aimed at monitoring and protecting the rights of flood victims.
10 February 2023
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has taken note of the severe flooding that has impacted the Komani area, in the Eastern Cape. We extend our deepest sympathies to those who have been affected by this natural disaster and have lost their homes and belongings.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
Thursday, 09 January 2023
In 2017 the SAHRC KwaZulu Natal Provincial Office released its investigative report on oncology services within the province. The report emanated from a complaint that alleged, among others, the lack of adequate provision of oncology services in the KZN Province. The report was shared with relevant stakeholders to action and to engage with the findings and recommendations in the report which sought to improve the state of oncology services and to manage the backlog of oncology patients that had arisen at the time. The SAHRC had received reports on the actions that were undertaken to comply with the recommendations in its report.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) North West provincial office received several complaints from persons alleging that they have been “blacklisted” by their former employers from securing employment in the mining sector.
The SAHRC will therefore conduct a human rights dialogue on the alleged practice of “blacklisting” in the North West Province.
The aim of the dialogue is to provide stakeholders with an opportunity to clarify how the “blacklisting” practice works, the rationale behind the practice, the parties involved throughout the value chain and the redress mechanisms available to persons affected by this practice.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
On 12 November 2018, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) released the outcomes of the investigation into allegations of racial tension, unfair discrimination, and harassment at UNISA. Following the release of the outcomes of the investigation, the Commission has held engagements with UNISA where policies, outputs and deadlines were discussed.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
06 February 2023
The SAHRC Eastern Cape provincial office is embarking on various monitoring activities in O.R. Tambo, Amathole and Chris Hani District Municipality this week. Section 184 (1) (c) of the South African Constitution states that the Commission must monitor and assess the observance of human rights in the Republic. The role of monitoring and assessing human rights and potential human rights violations, provides for an opportunity for the Commission to inspect areas of potential violation, and facilitate redress where required.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
25 January 2023
The South African Human Rights Commission’s (“the Commission”) Eastern Cape Provincial Office will be embarking on monitoring activities with a focus on health care centres and mental health care institutions in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan, Sarah Baartman District, Chris Hani District and the O R Tambo District Municipalities.
25 January 2023
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ Commission) notes and endorses the press statement issued on 23 January 2023 by the Network of African Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI), a body that represents all national human rights institutions (NHRIs) in the African continent. NANHRI is calling upon all African governments to expand the civic space in their respective jurisdictions, following the brutal murder of Eswatini human rights defender, Adv Thulani Maseko.
Date: 25 January 2023
Attention: Editors and Reporters
The South African Human Rights Commission’s North West provincial office has noted through its monitoring work, the challenge of police visibility in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati and Ngaka Modiri Districts. On further enquiry, the Commission was informed that some of the factors that contribute to the challenge of police visibility include the lack of human and material resources in the police stations servicing these areas.
Attention: Editors and Reporters
23 January 2023
SAHRC Mpumalanga provincial office will be conducting human rights dialogues for community based organisations as strategic stakeholders on Mental Health – Promoting and Protecting Human Rights.
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