Decision 62/27 on “Human rights and uncared for tropical ailments” was adopted at this time by the Human Rights Council (HRC) at its sixty-second session in Geneva. The primary ever HRC decision devoted to all uncared for tropical ailments (NTDs) was adopted by consensus, after being put ahead by six African nations the place the…
Landmark decision championed by a core group of African Member States led by Malawi 07 July, 2026 – Geneva, Switzerland – In a landmark second for world well being and human rights, African nations spearheaded the first-ever decision adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council in the present day, formally recognizing the profound and…
Throughout my years working in Malawi’s well being system – from clinician and public well being officer to main nationwide public well being programmes, and now as Minister of Well being – I’ve seen firsthand how uncared for tropical ailments (NTDs) form folks’s lives. I’ve sat with sufferers in our hospitals, spoken with households in…
ASUS Enterprise South Africa just lately hosted an government breakfast occasion, Human Benefit: Main Enterprise within the Age of AI, bringing collectively mid-market enterprise leaders and decision-makers from throughout the hospitality, retail, healthcare, authorized, fintech, logistics, insurance coverage and automotive sectors. Hosted at The Edge at Knightsbridge in Johannesburg, the occasion centered on the rising…
The Zambian authorities’s resolution to postpone RightsCon 2026, successfully canceling the summit, raises considerations concerning the authorities’ dedication to free expression and meeting and about attainable Chinese language authorities interference, Human Rights Watch mentioned right this moment. The 14th version of RightsCon was scheduled to be held in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, from Might 5 to eight, 2026. In an…
The water disaster has turn out to be a defining function of municipal service supply in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni, with the best impression felt in poor and marginalised communities. In October 2023, the Johannesburg Water Disaster Committee took a step that many thought would go nowhere: it wrote to the South African Human Rights…
The African Union will on Tuesday, April 7, launch the AU Human Rights Digital Memorial, which is able to embody a element devoted to the 1994 Genocide in opposition to the Tutsi in Rwanda. The memorial will probably be unveiled because the continental physique joins Rwandans for the thirty second commemoration of the Genocide in…
The persistence of TB is a reminder that medical options alone are usually not sufficient. Renier Coetzee and Ingrid Schoeman write that the illness thrives in circumstances formed by social injustice, together with poverty, overcrowded housing, under-resourced well being methods, and unequal entry to care. Every year on World Tuberculosis Day on 24 March, the…
An African buffalo within the savanna. Credit score: GENUS: DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences New fossil discoveries at South Africa’s Kromdraai website provide groundbreaking insights into the traditional ecosystems and their position in shaping human evolution, highlighting the interaction between hominins and varied bovid species. Within the sprawling savannas of South Africa’s Cradle of…
Sedimentary exposures from Lake Turkana in Kenya, the place a few of the studied fossils originated. Credit score: I. A. Lazagabaster Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, a Ramón y Cajal researcher on the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is a part of the worldwide workforce that has printed a research of the biogeographic…