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In a unanimous judgment penned by Justice Steven Majiedt, the Constitutional Court dealt, firstly, with the proper interpretation of section 10(1) of the Equality Act; secondly, with the vagueness (and therefore unconstitutionality) of section 10(1) as properly interpreted; and, thirdly, with the merit of the hate speech complaint against ...
On 12 May 2021, the ACHPR decided to create a commission to investigate human rights violations occurring in the Tigray War, referring to Ethiopia's obligations under articles 45(2) and 46 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, principles of non-interference, existing documentation on the human rights violations of the war, and other investigations such as the EHRC–OHCHR Tigray ...
In response to this series of statements, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies lodged a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission. Agreeing that Masuku's statements constituted hate speech , the Human Rights Commission launched proceedings in the High Court of South Africa on the Jewish Board of Deputies's behalf.
One of the civilian victims of the Togoga airstrike [1]. The EHRC–OHCHR Tigray investigation is a human rights investigation launched jointly by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in mid-2021 into human rights violations of the Tigray War that started in November 2020.
The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) was established by the UN Human Rights Council in December 2021. [1] The mandate of the commission is to investigate allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights law, humanitarian law and refugee law in Ethiopia committed since 3 November 2020 by all parties to the conflict. [2]
In June 2021, Daniel described his vision for the independence of the EHRC, stating, "state institutions in Ethiopia have a history of not being independent or impartial, but on the other hand we have started a process of trying to build independent institutions and I believe the Ethiopian human rights commission is one of them". [16] In ...
The functions of the Commission are laid out in the Alberta Human Rights Act. [4] In particular, section 16(1) states that the function of the Commission is: [4] (a) to forward the principle that all persons are equal in dignity, rights and responsibilities without regard to race, religious beliefs, colour, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, age ...
UNHCHR: Individual Complaint Procedures under the United Nations Human Rights Treaties Fact Sheet No.7/Rev.2, pdf. 20 S. UNHCHR: A Handbook for Civil Society Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme, New York und Genf, 2008, engl., pdf. 206 S. UNHCHR: Handbook for Human Rights Treaty Body Members New York und Genf, 2015, engl ...