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Unbothered, Unresponsive: Where is your sexual harassment policy?
Author: Jacob
Published: 08 Aug 2018
08 August 2018 - The provincial legislatures oversee and make the law. But when it comes to sexual harassment they seem to think they do not need the law. The #NotOurLeaders campaign has written repeatedly to all nine provincial legislatures and our four largest political parties requesting copies of their sexual harassment policies. To date, we have only received copies of two sexual harassment policies.
Dullah Omar Institute welcomes Centre for Human Rights students
Author: Jacob
Published: 08 Aug 2018
The Dullah Omar Institute is delighted to announce that, three LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa, students from Centre for Human Rights, University of  Pretoria joined the institute. The students will be doing their internship at the institute until December.
Seminar: “Voice and Accountability: What Councillors Say”
Author: Jacob
Published: 01 Aug 2018
45% of councillors in South Africa fear violence, 25% are pressurised around tenders and 32% prefer ‘getting this done’ over consultation. These were some of the statistics discussed during the seminar on “Voice and Accountability: What Councillors Say”, hosted by the Dullah Omar Institute, in collaboration with the South African Local Government Association.