Author: Jacob
Published:
14
Feb
2018
According to this second fact sheet, metros and highly urbanised provinces most prone to civic protests. It analyses the geographical spread of civic protests.
Author: Jacob
Published:
09
Feb
2018
Dullah Omar Institute’s Applied Constitutional Studies Laboratory has released its first Fact Sheet , Civic Protest Barometer 2018 - Drop in Civic protests in South Africa in 2017.
Author: Jacob
Published:
09
Feb
2018
The SARChI Chair in Multlevel Government, Law and Policy, Prof Nico Steytler, is hosting two visiting doctoral researchers from Europe. The two will be with the institute for the duration of 2018.
Author: Jacob
Published:
30
Jan
2018
The South African Research Chair (SARChi) in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy, based at the Institute of Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) for Constitutional law, Governance and Human Rights of the University of the Western Cape, is pleased to announce a full-time post-doctoral research fellowship in multilevel government for 2018.
Author: Kristen
Published:
15
Jan
2018
The Malawi High Court ruled that the arrest of 24 people, primarily women, during a police sweeping exercise, was unlawful. The applicants challenged their arrest and conviction for being idle and disorderly persons.
ACJR News
Author: Kristen
Published:
23
Dec
2017
The Malawi High Court has quashed the convictions of 24 people, primarily women, for the vagrancy offence of ‘being idle and disorderly persons.’
Outdated offences
Decriminalisation
Pre-trial detention
ACJR News
Author: Alicestine October
Published:
18
Dec
2017
From next year Parliament will be the battleground for a renewed standoff over the conditions under which pregnancies may be terminated. ACDP MP Cheryllyn Dudley’s Private Members Bill on the proposed amendments to the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act has already been slammed by rights groups and gender activists calling it a setback for women’s reproductive rights. Dudley, however, told ParlyBeat this “panic is unnecessary”.
Author: ParlyBeat
Published:
18
Dec
2017
As Parliament this month gives itself the usual pat on the back for the “activism and responsiveness” displayed in the more than 1 400 committee meetings held this year, questions remain on how effective it exercised its oversight role in burning issues like irregularities in the Passenger Rail Agency (Prasa).
ACSL releases Civic Protest Barometer 2018 Fact Sheet #2
