This month's issue focuses on media reports around sentencing and parole, health care, medical parole, safe custody, etc.
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This issue includes articles on access to housing & sufficient water, the ANC's promises on socio-economic rights, as well as the Seminar on Optional Protocol on the ICESC & Public Hearings on the Millenium Development Goals and the realisation of economic and social rights.
This Lecture was delivered by Dr Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The lecture was entitled: Women’s Rights in Human Rights Systems: Past, Present and Future
This Act is the legislative framework for children in conflict with the law.
The aim of the masters programme is to train a highly skilled cadre of local government and decentralisation practitioners.
This project has its origins in the work of the Saartjie Baartman Legal Advice and Training Project, a partnership undertaking between the Saartjie Baartman Centre and the Gender Project of the Community Law Centre.
This final issue for 2007 debates the question: Has Prison Oversight come of age in South Africa? Reflections on the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons and the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services.
This issue focuses on the advocacy initiatives around corporal punishment in Africa & the 16 Days of Activism campaign.
2007 may prove to have been an important year in the development of local government in South Africa. The announcement by Minister Mufamadi on 31 July of the review of the White Paper on Local Government, coming alongside the development of a White Paper on Provinces, may lead to significant changes.
The 43rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights took place in Swaziland, 7-22 May 2008.
This newsletter focuses primarily on the Correctional Services Portfolio Committee, from 2004 to 2009.
CSPRI has presented two submissions to the Portfolio Committee on Social Development & the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services.