The report analyses perceptions and practice around housing demand and allocation in South Africa, looking at the policies and processes operating at national, provincial and local level. It attempts to unpack some of the complexity and provide recommendations to government departments at all levels.
The coming into force today of the OP-ICESCR marks the beginning of a new dawn in the enforcement of socio-economic rights at the international level, with consequential positive impacts at the national level. According to Prof. Lilian Chenwi, Associate Professor at the Wits School of Law, the OP-ICESCR “would encourage State parties to ensure more effective local remedies for socio-economic rights violations”. The Campaign for South Africa’s Ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, joins other civil society groups and human rights advocates across the world in celebrating the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR).
This last issue of 2012 includes articles on the second year of implementation of the Child Justice Act and developments in neurological science and criminal capacity.
The third issue of the ESR Review focusses on the impact of corruption within Africa that contributes to poverty and unemployment and denial of access to housing and health-care services. There are also summaries of recent developments on socio-economic rights across the world.
Almost eighteen years after the South African government signed the ICESCR, Cabinet has approved that South Africa will ratify the ICESCR. This press release is ssued by the ICESCR Ratification Campaign Driver Group, 12 October 2012.
South African Human Rights Groups welcome Cabinet’s approval of South Africa’s ratification of the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Almost eighteen years after the South African government signed the ICESCR, Cabinet has approved that South Africa will ratify the ICESCR. This important decision to ratify, which means that the ICESCR will be legally binding, was included in a statement issued yesterday on Cabinet’s ordinary meeting held in Pretoria on 10 October 2012. The Cabinet statement describes how the ICESCR is a “key international treaty which seeks to encourage State Parties to address challenges of inequality, unemployment and poverty, which are critical to the strategic goals of governments.”
This second issue of 2012 focusses on monitoring of state performance relating to the realisation of social and economic rights using the Social and Economic Rights Fulfilment Index, an interview with the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and updates on the recent ILO Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers 2011, and the International Labour Organisation Social Protection Floors Recommendation 2012.
This seminar took place in the Townhouse Hotel, Cape Town
Presentation on their Special Needs Housing Programme
This presentation was on the Gauteng Special Needs Policy
The presentation was on the Right to Have Access to Housing for Persons With Special Needs
This presentation was on the background to Special Needs Housing
Relevant stakeholders met for a workshop to be presented with the findings of the Special Needs Housing Policy Promotion Project.
By Yvette Abrahams, Commission on Gender Equality
By Roedolf Kay, South African Older Person’s Forum
By Christelle Cornelius, Ikamva Labantu
By Monde Makiwane, Human Sciences Research Council
By Annamarie Kruger, AUTHeR (Afrika-Eenheid vir Transdissiplinêre Gesondheidsnavorsing), North West University
By Gavin Weir, Neighbourhood Old Age Homes Zoe Paul, Abbeyfield South Africa
By Watson Hamunakwadi, Global Call to Action against Poverty / National Welfare Forum, and Phelisa Nkomo, Black Sash
By Tumelo Kgosimmele, Community Law Centre
by Sebastiana Kalula, Institute of Ageing in Africa, University of Cape Town
By Elsette Strachan, NOBUNTU People Centred Development
By Judith Cohen, South African Human Rights Commission
By Paul Whelman, Western Cape Department of Human Settlements
By Unita van Vuuren, Western Cape Department of Health
By Karen Borochowitz, Dementia SA
By George Petros, Institute of Ageing in Africa, University of Cape Town
Presented by Jonathan Berger, Senior researcher, AIDS Law Project, Honorary research fellow, Wits University
Jumping the Queue, Waiting Lists and other Myths: Perceptions and Practice around Housing Demand and Allocation in South Africa Report
