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Prof De Visser addresses DDP Conference on Local Government
Published: 20 Oct 2014
"Reflecting on 20 years of Local Government" was the title of a presentation by Jaap de Visser to a conference on Local Government, organised by the Democracy Development Programme (DDP) in Durban on 20 October 2014.
news: Local Gov
Profs Steytler & De Visser train Kenyan Judges on devolution
Published: 19 Oct 2014
The judiciary in Kenya is increasingly called upon to resolve disputes about devolution. Last week, the Kenyan Judiciary Training Institute (JTI) organised a four day training programme on devolution for members of the judiciary. The training was organised in collaboration with the Katiba Institute.
Department of Justice should join hands with civil society
Author: jacob
Published: 19 Oct 2014
It is essential that DOJCS collaborate and partner with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that provide services to survivors to promote victim support at all stages of the justice system. This is according to Samantha Waterhouse, the project head of the Parliamentary Programme at the Community Law Centre when giving comments to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJCD), NPA Annual Reports and the DoJCD Annual Performance Report on Sexual Offences 2013/14.
SERP comments on the National Department of Health's Annual Report 2013/14
Author: jacob
Published: 18 Oct 2014
On 15 October 2014 the Socio-Economic Rights Project of the Community Law Centre made a submission before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health. The Community Law Centre, which is part of the civil society Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum (BEMF) made a written and oral submission on the National Department of Health's Annual Report 2013/14, together with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Amnesty International.
news: SER
Community Law Centre to host Prof Henk Kummeling
Published: 15 Oct 2014
The Community Law Centre is delighted to announce that it will be hosting Prof Henk Kummeling, the outgoing Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics & Governance at Utrecht University (Netherlands) and Extraordinary Professor at the Law Faculty. He will be joining the centre from 15 October 2014 to 11 December 2015.
Community Law Centre reflects on Court Monitoring Project
Published: 15 Oct 2014
Yesterday, Professor Lukas Muntingh, the head of Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative at the Community Law Centre shared the lessons learnt and challenges of the Court Watching Brief Programme (Court Monitoring Project) during the Justice for Breakfast roundtable which took place at the University of the Western Cape.
SA’s African Charter report on the Rights Child examined
Author: jacob
Published: 12 Oct 2014
Poverty, physical and sexual violence against children, were some of the key issues raised at the meeting between the South African government delegation and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) to examine South Africa’s Initial Country Report on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, which took place in Ethiopia on 9 October.