Geneva/Nairobi — The Committee on the Rights of the Youngster and UNICEF categorical their deep concern concerning the plight of migrant youngsters in South Africa and the challenges they face whereas shifting throughout the African continent. As enshrined within the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster and the African Constitution on the Rights and…
Minister within the Presidency accountable for Girls, Youth and Individuals with Disabilities, Sindisiwe Chikunga, has known as on States Events to speed up the implementation of the Conference on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities (CRPD), and make sure the significant participation of organisations representing individuals with disabilities. Delivering South Africa’s nation assertion on the…
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…
Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a Pan-African organisation, has launched its 2025 Annual Impression Report, highlighting a yr of outstanding organisational supply and sustained impression throughout its digital rights and digital inclusion initiatives in Africa and the remainder of the World South. The report appeared on the broader sector-wide developments throughout Africa and the remainder of the…
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 EU is within the course of of making a brand new system that may make it simpler to return irregularly current migrants to their nation of origin. The laws, often called the Returns Regulation, contains measures that make it potential to detain extra folks – together with kids and households – for longer durations…
Nairobi — Kenya’s internet hosting of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is in jeopardy after Sports activities Principal Secretary Elijah Mwangi revealed that the nation is but to pay Ksh 3.9 billion (USD 30 million) internet hosting charges to the Confederation of African Soccer (CAF). Showing earlier than the Nationwide Meeting Departmental Committee…
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…