Living below the minimum standards for prisoners - the state of Uganda's prisons
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This month's media reports cover topics on prisoners' rights, South Africans in foreign prisons, sentencing, paroles and pardons, medical parole, etc.
This first issue of 2009 has articles on Women's access to health; Litigating socio-economic rights; Age-based discrimination in Uganda & Right of Access to Malaria in Uganda
This case concerns the eviction of residents of Joe Slovo, one of Cape Town’s biggest informal settlements, to make way for formal housing as part of a government project.
This issue reports on the prison related topics of sentencing and parole; conditions of detention; unsentenced prisoners as well as on security and escapes in South Africa and other parts of Africa.
This seminar was hosted by the Socio-Economic Rights Project on 1 July 2009
This month's issue focuses on media reports around sentencing and parole, health care, medical parole, safe custody, etc.
This issue includes articles on access to housing & sufficient water, the ANC's promises on socio-economic rights, as well as the Seminar on Optional Protocol on the ICESC & Public Hearings on the Millenium Development Goals and the realisation of economic and social rights.
This Lecture was delivered by Dr Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The lecture was entitled: Women’s Rights in Human Rights Systems: Past, Present and Future
This Act is the legislative framework for children in conflict with the law.
The aim of the masters programme is to train a highly skilled cadre of local government and decentralisation practitioners.
This project has its origins in the work of the Saartjie Baartman Legal Advice and Training Project, a partnership undertaking between the Saartjie Baartman Centre and the Gender Project of the Community Law Centre.