How far have we come as a country to ensure every citizen is protected under the constitution?
Karima Brown spoke to Head of Advocacy and Communications at the SAHRC , Gail Smith to discuss the top five most violated rights.
The first one is equality and then within the equality provisions is based on race, disability and ethnicity. Those are three highest grounds for inequality where we are seeing the most numbers of reports of violations.
— Gail Smith, Head of Advocacy and Communications at the SAHRC

Labor. The Human Rights Commission is still seeing a lot of unfair labor practices in workplaces around the country and a lot of people are turning to the human rights commission. It also shows that a lot of people are not really sure where to turn for their rights
— Gail Smith, Head of Advocacy and Communications at the SAHRC

The third highest human rights violation in South Africa relates to the section 27 rights. Those are the rights to healthcare services, water, food and social security. I don't think that is any surprise , that's where economic inequality really cuts to the bone.
— Gail Smith, Head of Advocacy and Communications at the SAHRC

The fourth highest human rights violation is the right to just administrative action.
— Gail Smith, Head of Advocacy and Communications at the SAHRC

The fifth highest is related to arrests and detention. So we get a lot of complaints from inmates who are in correctional facilities, mostly relating to trial transcripts, help with appeals or complaining about the conditions which they live in.
— Gail Smith, Head of Advocacy and Communications at the SAHRC

Source: EWN