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Abigail Noko

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Abigail Noko

Abigail Noko is the regional representative for Southern Africa at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Responsibility: Seth Mazibuko and the author. He fought an unjust system and committed to erect a just one. Photo: Jacques Naude/ANA
SOWETO UPRISING

June 16: A book versus a bullet

Seth Mazibuko, the youngest member of the students' committee that led the peaceful protest in Soweto, shares his poignant memories of the June 16 Uprising, reflecting on its…

  • Abigail Noko
5 min read
The Sharpeville massacre galvanised the international community to confront the brutality of apartheid in a way that could no longer be ignored.
OPINION

Sharpeville’s legacy: how a massacre shaped the global fight against racism

On 21 March 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, police opened fire on an unarmed crowd of people protesting the apartheid pass laws. 69 people were killed – but reports suggest…

  • Abigail Noko
6 min read
French President of Council Vincent Auriol pronounces a speech during the opening ceremony of the third United Nations Assembly at the close of which, on December 10, 1948, was adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP
CONSTITUTION

10 December marks two anniversaries: South Africa’s Constitution and Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Although the rights enshrined in the Declaration have sparked change and transformation globally and here in South Africa, the world continues to face multiple crises

  • Abigail Noko
5 min read