2025 South Africa Human Rights Festival and the Significance of Constitution Hill
2025 South Africa Human Rights Festival and the Significance of Constitution Hill 1. General Framework of the Festival From 20 to 23 March 2025, Constitution Hill in Johannesburg hosted the 7th Annual Human Rights Festival. The four-day event brought together human rights defenders, artists, lawyers, academics, and the public through panels, workshops, exhibitions, theatre, poetry, concerts, and film screenings. This year’s theme, “For Tolerance, Peace and Prosperity,” aimed to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the South African Constitution while fostering social cohesion and democratic participation. 2. Constitution Hill: A Historical and Symbolic Site Historical Layers: Originally built in the late 19th century under British colonial rule, Constitution Hill served as a prison complex that held both male and female political prisoners. Notable figures such as Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Winnie Mandela were imprisoned here. Transformation and the Constitutional Court: After the adoption of the new constitution in 1996,…
Human Rights Festival 2024
Universal Rights Association at the Human Rights Festival 2024.
Acts of Goodness by URA: Building Justice Through Compassion
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13th Annual Walk For Freedom organised by The Palestine Solidarity Alliance on Sunday the 25th of September 2022 at Rose Park Lenasia
The Walk for Freedom organised by @psasouth_africa in #Lanesia 4 the people of Palestine & other oppressed in Turkey & around the world. We thank to all who visited our stand & photography exhibition.
Friday 12 August 2022 Award-Winning Annual Concert for Refugees
Please join us in Award-Winning Annual Concert for Refugees by *Universal Right Association (URA)* ,*Turquoise Harmony Institute* and other partners. Once again, it is time to raise awareness of the plight of the numerous people in the African Continent and around the world who have been chased from their homes, forgotten, and misplaced by others. Forced displacement is a very real crisis and the victims must be recognised and included in efforts to promote *Social Cohesion* Here is the line-up: *Sipho Hotstix Mabuse* *Msaki* *PJ Powers* *Thandi Ntuli* *Pops Mohamed* *Neill Solomon* *Rocksteady Dub* *Bienvenue Nseka* and *Lebo Mashile* *Date* : Friday, 12th August *Venue* : Linder Auditorium *Time* : 19:00 for 19:30 *Tickets*: https://tinyurl.com/ConcertTicket2022 for more info *www.refugeeconcert.co.za*
Human Rights Festival 2022 Panel: Why South Africa Needs a National Strategy to End School Dropout
HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL South Africa needs a national education strategy to tackle the school dropout crisis School dropout rates have an impact on students, their families and communities, and on society as a whole. While everyone in South Africa is impacted by the phenomenon, everyone has the potential to be part of the solution. Education experts explored the strategies that can be employed to protect learners’ constitutionally guaranteed right to education at a panel discussion at the Constitution Hill Human Rights Festival on Saturday, 19 March. Even before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa was facing a crisis in the form of school dropout, with around four out of 10 learners who started school in grade one dropping out before reaching matric. The phenomenon has become normalised in many communities, the shrinking of classes between grades 8 and 12 an accepted reality. This, said Rahima Essop, head of communications…
Contribution of Refugees & Migrants to South Africa
Contribution of Refugees & Migrants to South Africa 20 June: International Refugee Day Universal Right Association (URA) is a civil society organization dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights, the rule of law, democracy, peace and sustainable development prescribed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. URA focuses on creating awareness and advice solutions on social issues, injustices and human rights abuses which affects the daily life of people. According to UNHCR and WHO at least 70.8 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Among them are nearly 25.9 million refugees and more people are on the move now than ever before. (1) There are an estimated 1 billion migrants in the world today. (2) Only in 2018, 13.6 million people were newly displaced, either as refugees or internally displaced people. The number of refugees and migrants is on the rise every year and we have to pay more attention to this new fact…