8th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture
Advocacy, Monitoring and Submissions
Up one levelIt has worked with various civil society organisations on campaigns to improve access to socio-economic rights by marginalised and disadvantaged groups including, for example, the Ad Hoc Campaign for the Inclusion of Socio-Economic Rights in the Constitution; the National "Speak out on poverty" hearings; the Equality Alliance; the Child Support Grant Campaign; the Alliance for Children's Entitlement to Social Security Rights (ACESS); and the Basic Income Grant Coalition.
35th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
On 21 May – 4 June 2004 the 35th Session of the African Session on Human and Peoples' Rights took place in Banjul, the Gambia. It was preceded by the customary NGO Forum on 18 – 20 May 2004. Christopher Mbazira through the Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA) represented the Socio-Economic Rights Project.
Optional Protocol to ICESCR
The Project's participation in the optional protocol process is driven by the need to ensure that those whose socio-economic rights have been violated have access to justice at not just the national level but the international level as well. Together with other organisations forming the International NGO Coalition, we aim at ensuring that the best possible optional protocol to the ICESCR is swiftly adopted, so as to remedy the current gaps in the procedures to render socio-economic rights justiciable at the international level.
The Right to food Campaign in South Africa
For further information, contact Sibonile Khoza at skhoza@uwc.ac.za or on +27(21) 959 2950.