Human Rights

The Open Society Foundations (OSF)-Africa: Call for Proposals

07.11.2022 , Art and Culture, Democracy & Governance, Economic Justice, Education, Human Rights, Opportunity, Youth

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened an already-existing education deficit. Before COVID-19, Sub-Saharan Africa had approximately 100 million children from pre-school to tertiary education level who were not in school due to a lack of investment, living in areas of conflict, low quality of the educational...

OSISA reiterates calls for inclusive national dialogue in eSwatini

31.10.2022 , Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Opinion & Analysis

The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) reiterates calls for inclusive national dialogue in eSwatini. We are extremely concerned by the deteriorating social, economic and political situation in the country and view inclusive national dialogue as a necessary and peaceful step towards ending the...

White Yet Black: International Albinism Awareness Day 2022

14.10.2022 , Art and Culture, Human Rights

White Yet Black is a conversational piece with people with albinism in Southern Africa. Part documentary, part experimental film, White Yet Black is a poetic piece. The film attempts to highlight the experiences of people with albinism in the southern African region....

Global Access Health (GAH): A Social Enterprise Which Expands Access to Affordable State-of-the-Art Medical Technology

19.07.2021 , Economic Justice, Human Rights, News

New York/ London, 19 July 2021 A group of philanthropic funds and investors led by the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is today announcing the launch of Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise that will seek...

President Biden should reconsider easing of sanctions against Dan Gertler

05.02.2021 , Economic Justice, Human Rights, News

Kinshasa, 26 January 2021 The "Congo is not for sale" (CNPAV) campaign, denounces the license granted by the Trump administration to Dan Gertler, allowing him to conduct transactions with American entities for one year. We call on the new U.S. President Joe Biden to take a...

[VEM TRABALLHAR CONNOSCO]: Oficial de Programa: Direitos Humano

12.01.2021 , Human Rights, Opportunity, Vacancies

O Oficial do Programa será responsável pelo planeamento, gerenciamento e implementação das prioridades do programa. Espera-se que ele/ela identifique oportunidades de concessão de financiamentos no programa de Direitos Humanos para parceiros nacionais. Ele/ela desempenhará um papel importante na facilitação das redes entre os parceiros da...

Hate Speech: The Trigger and Fuel of Violent Atrocity

10.12.2020 , Events, Human Rights, News

I want to express my profound gratitude to the organisers for the honour and privilege granted to me to deliver the 2020 Annual Lecture under the theme: Hate Speech and its Impact on Transitional Justice. I feel scarcely qualified to do so but will endeavour to...

Vagrancy laws must fall! A landmark decision by the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights

09.12.2020 , Human Rights, News

Archaic colonial-era laws such as being a “Rogue and Vagabond”, and “Idle and Disorderly Persons”, “Loitering”, or “Wandering” (collectively “Vagrancy Laws”) can be found in criminal statutes or municipal ordinances of nearly every country in Africa, including many in the southern Africa region....

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Human Rights

The Open Society Foundations (OSF)-Africa: Call for Proposals

OSISA reiterates calls for inclusive national dialogue in eSwatini

White Yet Black: International Albinism Awareness Day 2022

Global Access Health (GAH): A Social Enterprise Which Expands Access to Affordable State-of-the-Art Medical Technology

President Biden should reconsider easing of sanctions against Dan Gertler

[VEM TRABALLHAR CONNOSCO]: Oficial de Programa: Direitos Humano

Hate Speech: The Trigger and Fuel of Violent Atrocity

Vagrancy laws must fall! A landmark decision by the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights

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