Foundation For Human Rights

22/10/2024

[In-person only event]
Join Wits Law School in Celebrating 30 Years of South African Democracy!

On 28 October 2024 (Monday), from 16:00 to 17:45, the Foundation for Human Rights will convene and participate in the panel discussion, “The Unfinished Business of Justice: Criminal Accountability in South Africa's Transitional Justice 30 Years On.”

The discussion will be facilitated by Professor Jonathan Klaaren, professor at the Wits Law School and member of the FHR Board.

Registration fee: R750*
*The registration fee is collected by Wits Law School. Neither FHR nor any of the panelists receive financial benefit from the event.

Registration allows you to participate in all panel discussions on 28 and 29 October as per the Conference Programme, which can be accessed here:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b4e0c627c93275c142a87cc/t/6716a7217e21f95ca89bfcdf/1729537826520/Wits+Law+2024+Programme+v3.pdf

Register by 23 October, at 17.00. To register follow this link:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRmjaV0IAeEgkiJC_7QFwCwSPaeeMu7fpu1PmlHL97DRduQg/viewform?pli=1

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The Umngeni Local Women’s Conference is underway at the Mpophomeni Multipurpose Centre, proudly hosted by DDP in partnership with the UMngeni Unemployed Graduates Forum. Let’s empower and uplift our community together! 💪✨

UMngeni Unemployed Graduates Forum Foundation for Human Rights Paul Kariuki

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EU Delegation in South Africa Programme Manager, Ms Funda Celikel Esser, visited FHR partners Callas Foundation, Abalimi Bezekhaya and Neighbourhood Old Age Homes (NOAH) earlier this week in Athlone, Cape Town (Tuesday 8 October 2024).

Together, we celebrated the power of taking an intersectional approach to addressing GBV and its root causes. Callas Foundation offer First Responder training, journey with survivors in their struggle for justice before, through and beyond the courts, run a food kitchen from their premises, and are known for their referrals and powerful networking local-to-global, striving to ensure that no one is lost along the journey.

FHR partners with Abalimi Bezekhaya and NOAH in our Growing Food for Life programme that was born out of our GBV programme, to address food security, offering women in particular, and GBV survivors, a greater chance of independent choice and economic resilience for them and those that depend on them. We learned together and celebrated the power of this day-to-day community organising that concretely advances human rights and the promises of the Constitution.

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Communities are actively combatting gender based violence! 💪🏽💜 The FHR Gender Justice and Masibambisane teams are on the ground in Giyani, training GBV monitors to become catalysts of change and combat the scourge of GBV in their communities.

22/10/2024

EU Delegation in South Africa Programme Manager, Ms Funda Celikel Esser (), visited FHR partners Callas Foundation, Abalimi Bezekhaya and Neighbourhood Old Age Homes (NOAH) earlier this week in Athlone, Cape Town (Tuesday 8 October 2024).

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"The clinic has asked us to stay for 3 hours after we visit them to speak about our free services to patients. They have given us a special room to have patients come to see us privately, and this is now a part of our GBV Help Desk strategy.”

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