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On March 19, 2026, ESCR-Net hosted the webinar Digital Activism: Social Media Strategies for Justice. The session brought together communicators and activists from around the world to share strategies for engaging on social media in increasingly contested digital spaces — particularly in contexts where far-right and anti-rights narratives are gaining ground.

As South Africa approaches its 2030 development commitments, the continued exclusion of the Black majority from equitable access to land exposes a structural failure to redress the legacy of apartheid. ESCR-Net member, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), is challenging this inertia. Researchers Thuto Gabaphethe and Lulama Madyaka argue that the government’s inaction is not a delay, but a breach of binding constitutional and human rights obligations. Through a proposed amicus curiae intervention, CALS calls for transformative, redistributive land reform—underscoring that without it, justice, dignity, and equality cannot be realized.