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The Children's Rights Project's April issue of Article 40 is available for download
The Project's new co-ordinator, Mr. Edmund Folley, writes the feature article on improving children’s access to justice in the Gambia.
The Centre presented it's statement on Poverty and Human Rights in Africa
At the 51st Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Centre's statement focussed on the link between poverty and human rights, paying attention to issues such as access to water and sanitation, criminalisation of poverty and children and poverty.
The right to water is a focus for Human Rights Month
The Centre's People to Parliament and Socio-Economic Rights Project, with other organisations, highlight the plight of inadequate water and sanitation in poor communities by making submissions and having public hearings in the month of March. These activities form part of the ICESCR Ratification Campaign.
The podcast of the 8th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture is now available
Download the podcast of the keynote address by Former President Thabo Mbeki, as well as the Question and Answer session that occurred afterwards.
Speech by Former President Thabo Mbeki
The Keynote address of the 8th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture, which was held last night at the University of the Western Cape, was delivered by Former President Thabo Mbeki.
The annual Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture will be held in February
The Community Law Centre will be hosting the 8th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture on 16th February 2012. The speaker will be Former President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Thabo Mbeki.
Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative has launched a new website
During December 2011 the CSPRI launched a new, revamped website. The site contains helpful information about the project, staff members, news, events as well as several links which will enable readers to access publications and subscribe to various newsletters.
December 2011's issue of the ESR Review is now available
The two featured articles in this issue are entitled: Health and reproductive rights, HIV, and the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa and Gender dimensions of the right to adequate housing from an international perspective.
Ommitance of children with disabilities in the National Development Plan
An Opinion piece, written by Dr Helene Combrink and Lorenzo Wakefield, focus on the invisibility of children with disabilities in the National Development Plan.
The November 2011 issue of the ESR Review is available
The Socio-Economic Rights Project has published the third issue of the ESR Review, with the featured articles on the draft African Disability Protocol and socio-economic justice for persons with disabilities, as well as focussing on women with disabilities.