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Amnesty International South Africa campaigns strongly to end gender-based violence, the protection of human rights defenders, climate change and education, to name a few areas. You can read more about Amnesty International South Africa’s campaigns here .
The Right2Know Campaign is a South African non-profit advocacy organisation established in 2010 to reduce state secrecy in the drafting of laws, increase access to information, and protect freedom of expression especially on the internet.
PASSOP was founded in 2007 by a group of Zimbabweans and spearheaded by Braam Hanekom. Though originally established in response to increased tensions between Zimbabwean foreign nationals fleeing Robert Mugabe's increasingly repressive regime and South African citizens who blamed them for crime and unemployment. [3]
The Free Senior High School (Free SHS) education policy in Ghana was a government initiative introduced in the 2017 September Presidential administration of Nana Akufo-Addo. [1] The policy's origination began as part of the President's presidential campaign during Ghana's 2016 election period , and has become an essential part of Ghana's ...
Stage 1 – Cultural Preparation or "Conscientization": Education, training and consciousness raising of why there is a need for a nonviolent revolution and how to conduct a nonviolent revolution. Stage 2 – Building Organizations: As training, education and consciousness raising continues, the need to form organizations.
South Africa has been dubbed "the protest capital of the world", [1] with one of the highest rates of public protests in the world. [2]It is often argued that the rate of protests has been escalating since 2004, [2] but Steven Friedman argues that the current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s. [3]
The Anti-Apartheid Movement worked with a range of organisations in Britain, such as the International Defence and Aid Fund, local council authorities, churches, and trade unions, to demand Mandela's release from prison and campaign for the end of apartheid in South Africa. A notable feature of the campaign across Britain was the renaming of ...
The conference was not successful in persuading Britain to take up economic sanctions against South Africa. Rather, the British government remained firm in its view that the imposition of sanctions would be unconstitutional "because we do not accept that this situation in South Africa constitutes a threat to international peace and security and we do not, in any case, believe that sanctions ...