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Since the early days of the environmental movement, protection of wildlife and natural landscapes has been a major area of focus, however as the environmental movement has become more justice-focused, it has shifted from advocating for fortress conversation policies to endorsing community-based conservation strategies, which have been implemented in some areas with varying degrees of efficacy. [2]
The Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Act of 2023 (Act 16 of 2023) is a South African statute law aimed at reducing offensive speech and curbing hate crimes in South Africa. [1] The Bill was introduced in 2016 and sat before the South African National Assembly until it was passed in 2023 and signed into law in 2024. [2]
By sending refugees back to persecution, Human Rights Watch has asserted that South Africa is violating the refugee convention and international law. [25] On 17 September 2020, Human Rights Watch published a 64-page report detailing the widespread xenophobic violence in South Africa. The report also contained video footage and witness testimony.
Natural Justice worked with the Samburu community to develop a bio-cultural community protocol to help address concerns about their indigenous livestock breeds. [1] Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa, with additional offices in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dakar ...
When Cape Town finally started implementing the Group Areas Act, it did so more severely than any other major city; by the mid-1980s, it had become one of the most segregated cities in South Africa. [4] Plans to build Khayelitsha were first announced by Dr Piet Koornhof in 1983, then Minister of Co-operation and Development. By 1985, the suburb ...
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is a human rights organisation based in South Africa with offices in Johannesburg (including a Constitutional Litigation Unit), Cape Town, Durban and Grahamstown.
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.
1992 Thor Chemicals is exposed resulting in various court applications that end up testing culpability of global corporates. 15 September 2003 Earthlife Africa - Cape Town launched a High Court application in Cape Town, seeking to review and set aside the environmental impact assessment (EIA) authorisation granted to Eskom to build a demonstration module Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) at ...