The latest CSPRI Newsletter focuses on the article, the UN Committee Against Torture releases List of Issues for South Africa.
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Living below the minimum standards for prisoners - the state of Uganda's prisons
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.
This final issue for 2007 debates the question: Has Prison Oversight come of age in South Africa? Reflections on the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons and the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services.
This issue focuses on the advocacy initiatives around corporal punishment in Africa & the 16 Days of Activism campaign.
2007 may prove to have been an important year in the development of local government in South Africa. The announcement by Minister Mufamadi on 31 July of the review of the White Paper on Local Government, coming alongside the development of a White Paper on Provinces, may lead to significant changes.
The 43rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights took place in Swaziland, 7-22 May 2008.
This newsletter focuses primarily on the Correctional Services Portfolio Committee, from 2004 to 2009.
CSPRI has presented two submissions to the Portfolio Committee on Social Development & the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services.
These guidelines have been developed to aid in the provision of appropriate and quality care for prisoners living with or at risk of HIV infection in detention facilities in southern Africa.
Keep abreast on prison-related issues in South Africa and other African countries by reading media reports on the subject.
Evictions have continued after the end of apartheid and affect the most socially, economically, environmentally and politically disadvantaged and vulnerable sectors of the society, including the poor, women and children, who are engaged in a daily struggle to survive. These evictions at times result in homelessness and, in most instances, they occur in a manner that is incompatible with the fundamental human rights contained in the Constitution as well as other procedural safeguards on evictions.
Download the latest issue of Iminyango. It's feature story contains the findings of the Medical Research Council's HIV prevention programme, "Stepping Stones".
Media topics covered in November's issue include: governance & corruption; unsentenced prisoners; security & escapes; parole & sentencing; conditions of detention and reports about other African countries
A press statement has been issued by the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative on Prisoner Participation in the upcoming General Elections. This press statement was issued on 26 January 2009.
Media reports on Sentencing & Parole; Unsentenced Prisoners; Security and Escapes; Children; Prison Construction; Governance and Corruption & Prisoners' Rights.
Download the brochure on the Children's Act, which protects all children up to the age of 18 years.
Why talk about torture in post-apartheid South Africa? Is torture not something that we have left in the past? Regrettably torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment still takes place in South Africa; this reality did not end on 27 April 1994.
This newsletter focuses primarily on the latest amendment to the Correctional Services Act, which is written by Amanda Dissel (Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation).
Find out all the facts surrounding the current status of HIV in South Africa's prison system.