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Families request Marikana Report be released soon

SERI and the LRC, who represent the families of the 37 mineworkers killed at Marikana on August 2012, issued a press statement regarding the publication of the Marikana Commission report

Bank on Human Rights Coalition decides strategic priorities

Thirty-three members and allies from seventeen countries attended the gathering in Johannesburg, South Africa

Abahlali baseMjondolo celebrates gains in the struggle for dignity for South Africa’s shack dwellers

The social movement of South Africa secure access to electricity for shack dwellers in Siyanda and hail the arrest of two local councilors following the murder of their leader last year

SERI argues successful case to hold public officials accountable for implementation

South African Supreme Court advances enforcement of right to decent housing

The Government of South Africa ratifies the ICESCR

SERI, LRC, CLC, Section27 and other Members welcome South Africa’s ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

South Africa: Protect leaders of shack-dwellers from attacks

ESCR-Net sent a letter to the Government of South Africa to raise grave concern regarding a recent wave of alleged assassinations, threats, arbitrary detentions and other acts of violence and intimidation against leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo

Criminalization of human rights defenders in South Africa

SERI released a publication on the state of human rights advocats in South Africa

Nthabiseng Pheko and Occupiers of Bapsfontein Informal Settlement v. Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality

This case concerns a municipality’s efforts to remove residents from land it had deemed to be a “local state of disaster” pursuant to the Disaster Management Act (“DMA”), which was intended to provide municipalities with flexibility in urgently responding to disaster-stricken areas when such action is necessary for the preservation of life. Upon learning of their impending removal, the residents challenged the eviction, arguing that the removal was unlawful under the Constitution’s guarantees of the right to housing and certain statutory provisions. The reside

Madzodzo et al v. Minister of Basic Education et al

This 2014 decision was handed down after three rounds of litigation. In 2012 applicants sought a court order directing the delivery of school furniture to three rural schools in dire need of furniture; a declaration that the State had violated children’s right to education by failing to provide “adequate, age and grade appropriate furniture” at Eastern Cape schools; and an order that the state complete a comprehensive audit of school furniture needs in the province.

South Africa-Seminar on State’s obligations in relation to implementation and reporting under the ICESCR and OP-ICESCR

South African members of the NGO Coalition, Community Law Centre (CLC) and Socio Economic Rights Institute (SERI) together with their partners People Health's Movements South Africa, Black Sash, GCAP, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) and the...