Author: Jacob
Published:
15
Oct
2018
The Auditor General, Mr Kimi Makwetu presented a keynote address to the second Joint DOI-UCT seminar on 12 of October 2018. The seminar theme was “Building a Capable Developmental State: Enforcing public finance law and ethics” .
Author: Jacob
Published:
05
Oct
2018
Kristen Petersen attended a UN Treaty Bodies Litigators’ Meeting in Geneva 2 - 4 October 2018, hosted by the Open Society Foundation – Justice Initiative (New York) and the Centre for Civil & Political Rights (Geneva).
Author: Jacob
Published:
27
Sep
2018
On 26 September, the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape partnered with ASRI and the District Six Museum to convene a seminar on ‘Race’ and racism in post-millennial post-apartheid South Africa: unmaking the past, making the future. The seminar was chaired by Jaap de Visser, the Director of the Dullah Omar Institute and featured influential researchers and thought leaders on ‘race’ and racism.
Author: Jacob
Published:
27
Sep
2018
On 26 September, the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape partnered with ASRI and the District Six Museum to convene a seminar on ‘Race’ and racism in post-millennial post-apartheid South Africa: unmaking the past, making the future. The seminar was chaired by Jaap de Visser, the Director of the Dullah Omar Institute and featured influential researchers and thought leaders on ‘race’ and racism.
Author: Jacob
Published:
26
Sep
2018
The newly trained activist monitors from CSOs working with Women and Democracy Initiative’s (WDI) Parliament Watch and Putting the ‘People’ in People’s Parliament projects entered Parliament and the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
Author: Jacob
Published:
18
Sep
2018
Judge Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane has highlighted that inequality for women in the workplace, among other settings, is still prevalent in South Africa. Judge Kathree-Setiloane - the South Gauteng High Court judge who has presided over several high profile matters - has also warned that sexual harassment cases against women in the workplace are pervasive. There are judgments from the courts that have found that resignations as a result of sexual harassment does constitute unfair dismissal.
Author: Jacob
Published:
13
Sep
2018
South Africa ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in January 2015. As required by the ICESCR, the South African government submitted its initial report to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) in April 2017.
ICESCR
Author: Jacob
Published:
12
Sep
2018
Together with an independent researcher and Lawyers for Human rights, Women and Democracy Initiative submitted 12 Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) applications to political parties, most provincial legislatures and Parliament.
Auditor General highlights the impact of accountability failures at joint UWC-UCT seminar
