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The Human Rights Commission is mandated by the South African Constitution and the Human Rights Commission Act of 1994, to monitor, both pro-actively and by way of complaints brought before it, violations of human rights and seeking redress for such violations. It also has an educational role. [2]
In this, the Constitutional Court confirmed the reading of the High Court in South African Human Rights Commission v Khumalo. [4] Dealing with an ambiguity in the syntax of section 10(1), the court also agreed with Khumalo that paragraphs (a) to (c) of section 10(1) should be read conjunctively, rather than disjunctively as proposed by the ...
National Commissioner of The South African Police Service v Southern African Human Rights Litigation Centre and Another, sometimes known as the torture docket case, is a 2014 decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on universal jurisdiction in international criminal law.
The incident has been called "the greatest cause of human rights violation" in democratic South Africa, [3] and stimulated discussion about the care of psychiatric and other state patients. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As of 2021, no criminal charges had been laid against any individuals involved, but a judicial inquest into the deaths was ongoing.
Human rights are "rights one has simply because one is a human being." [3] These privileges and civil liberties are innate in every person without prejudice and where ethnicity, place of abode, gender, cultural origin, skin color, religious affiliation, or language including sexual orientation do not matter.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice [1] body assembled in South Africa in 1996 after the end of apartheid. [a] Authorised by Nelson Mandela and chaired by Desmond Tutu, the commission invited witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations to give statements about their experiences, and selected some for public hearings.
Pages in category "Human rights abuses in South Africa" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Human Rights Commission approached the Constitutional Court of South Africa to appeal the Supreme Court of Appeal's finding on the hate speech question. In addition to opposing that appeal, Masuku and COSATU filed their own cross-appeal against the prevailing costs order .