Human rights day South Africa

Adverts on/off? You choose. Aside from the UDM, applicants in the case include the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), the Health Workers ...

“The story of the R350 grant is a documentary about what the R350 Covid grant meant to recipients and how a universal Basic Income Grant could transform our future. The Human Rights Festival provides a fantastic opportunity for social justice organisations and movements to meet, learn, debate, and persuade.” But it’s also taking place at a time when people are mobilising, rebuilding communities, and experimenting with alternatives, searching for solidarity,” according to the event description. “The Michael Komape Sanitation Progress Monitor, named after the five-year-old learner, Michael Komape, who drowned in a pit toilet at his school in Limpopo in 2014, will be launched at the Human Rights Festival held at the Constitution Hill… The events on this day are not open to the general public, but rather intended as a skills-building opportunity for civil rights organisations and stakeholders. The exhibition draws attention to ongoing large-scale human rights abuses committed by gold mining companies and compensation agencies as a result of their failure to pay for the illnesses and deaths they cause,” according to the event description. The discussion will be moderated by Gareth Newham, head of justice and violence prevention at the ISS. “Seventy-five years ago, for the first time, the international community agreed on a set of common values and acknowledged that rights are inherent to every single human being and not granted by the state. Over the past decade, it has become a key global issue generating reams of research reports, policies and media stories,” according to the event description. “Human Rights Day in South Africa is historically linked with 21 March 1960, and the events of Sharpeville. The Constitution Hill Human Rights Festival, open to the public on 25 and 26 March, is an opportunity to hear experts from all walks of life comment on social issues, while the 17th Annual Human Rights Lecture at Stellenbosch University will provide insights into undoing epistemic injustice in health. The government’s response has undermined the fundamental rights of citizens,” according to Numsa.