The Multilevel Government Initiative (MLGI) of the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) released a research report, Operation Clean Audit 2014: Why it Failed and What Can Be Learned, and its companion OCA 2014 Barometer, which extracts key statistical information from the report.
Four out of five people in the world do not have access to comprehensive social security and 50% of these live in absolute poverty and majority of these people live in Africa. This is according to Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi, Socio-Economic Rights Project researcher at the Community Law Centre when delivering a statement at African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights at the 55th Ordinary Session.
CSPRI-PPJA in partnership with the Mozambican Institute of Legal Aid (Insituto Patrocinio Assistencia Juridica, IPAJ) held a wokshop on 21 and 22 May 2014 to promote two new international soft law instruments on access to justice and pre-trial detention in Africa.
The Community Law Centre’s Children’s Rights Project is calling for consultants to produce a concept note for the commemoration of the Day of the African Child (DAC) 2015 on the theme, “25 Years after the Adoption of the African Children’s Charter: Accelerating our Collective Efforts to End Child Marriage in Africa”.
Community Law Centre's Multilevel Government Initiative (MLGI) made an analysis on the 2014 Election which recently took place in South Africa, in an article titled, “Election 2014: The coming battle for control of the big cities.” This article is part of the Talking Good Governance blog by MLGI.
Community Law Centre’s researcher, Clare Ballard, yesterday delivered a report and presented a submission, which dealt with independent oversight of the police at the Khayelitsha Commission. This is a commission of inquiry into allegations of police inefficient in Khayelitsha and a breakdown of relations between the community and the police in Khayelitsha. According to her report issues of the effective oversight of police stations and investigations into SAPS were raised during the course of the Khayelitsha Commission’s (the Commission) phase 1 hearings.
If policing burden were distributed equally, then police human resources should be distributed through a per capita method, for example, population size determines relative resourcing. This is according to Jean Redpath, a researcher at Community Law Centre’s Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, when giving a submission at the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of Police Inefficient in Khayelitsha and a Breakdown of Relations between the Community and the Police in Khayelitsha, yesterday.
Jean Redpath gave evidence at the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of Police Inefficiency and a Breakdown in Relations between the South African Police Service and and the Community in Khayelitsha in May 2014 regarding the relative allocation of police human resources among police stations in the Western Cape.
This first issue of the 2014 ESR Review focusses on the potential of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as a tool for poverty reduction in South Africa. It also looks at Developing Cape Town’s right to housing in the rental sector. There are also summaries of recent developments on socio-economic rights across the world.
Former Constitutional Court Judge reflected on Oliver Tambo’s vision and contribution to South Africa’s constitution. He did this during the 9th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture which took place on 25 March at the University of the Western Cape.
It is clear that South Africa needs to urgently ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The ratification would strengthen the domestic protection of economic, social and cultural rights in South Africa through policy, legislation (laws) and jurisprudence (decisions of court).
On 25 March 2014, the Community Law Centre hosted the 9th Dullah Omar Lecture which was delivered by former constitutional court judge Albie Sachs. The lecture was titled “Speaking to Oliver Tambo's Ghost: Twenty Years into Democracy".
