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Intersex Awareness Day
This Intersex Awareness Day, the SAHRC remembers Sally Gross, an anti-apartheid activist, human rights champion and founder of Intersex South Africa
Today, the SAHRC is conducting a Human Rights Workshop in collaboration with Flagstaff Community Advice Office in Flagstaff.
The workshop focuses on the mandate of the SAHRC and various pathways to reach the office including the right to education, water, sanitation & roads.
Medical students need input from a medical-ethics and human rights perspective. Religious leaders need to be educated about it to educate others. We need legislation to limit and regulate non-consensual genital surgery on the intersexed.”
Today, the SAHRC Western Cape Provincial OfficE is meeting with the Informal Settlement Leaders in Philipi, Cape Town.
SAHRC condemns reported incidents of killing of a police officer at Lichtenburg Mall and a non-national in Durban, calls for accountability
SAHRC reports tabled in Parliament
The SAHRC’s Policy Brief on Information Integrity and Human Rights; and Infrastructure Vandalism as a human rights crisis, were formally tabled in Parliament yesterday, 22 October 2026. We look forward to further engagements.
1/5 Commissioner Makoasha presenting at a workshop hosted by the Business and Human Rights Centre, theme: “Strengthening South-South and Cross-Regional Learning, Solidarity and Rights-Based Action for a Just & Equitable Transition to a Green, Rights-Based Economy.” in Joburg.
4/5 The presentation highlighted the important role of National Human Rights Institutions in promoting corporate accountability, strengthening access to effective remedies for affected individuals and communities…
Media Statement: SAHRC Calls on the City of Tshwane to take Urgent Remedial Action to Address Water Crisis in Bronkhorstspruit and Affected Areas within Region 7 sahrc.org.za/index.php/sahrc…
1/3 Commissioner Madlingozi delivered the opening keynote address duirng @UKZN's 10th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, convened under the theme INGQOPHAMLANDO- Curriculum Transformation for the Future: Africanising, Decolonising, and Digitising Teaching & Learning in KZN.
2/3 Commissioner Madlingozi’s address was titled Decolonisation or University Transformation? Revisiting ‘Legal Academics and Progressive Politics in South Africa: Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower’ Twenty Years Later.
Dialogue| Commissioner Aseza Gungubele is today, 22 October, joining the SAHRC Limpopo Provincial Office in hosting a migration dialogue in Polokwane, Limpopo.
The participating stakeholders include the Office of the Premier of Limpopo, government departments (Department of Home Affairs, SAPS and Border Management Authority), Civil Society, Chapter 9 institutions, Traditional Leaders, Faith-based organisations & Human Rights Champions.