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Intersectional protest: Members of Extinction Rebellion and Red Rebels, as well as other local Cape Town environmental action groups, mobilised outside parliament last Friday, calling for climate action and environmental justice. (David Harrison/M&G)
AFRICA CLIMATE ALLIANCE

South Africa’s young climate strikers hit back at critics

Critics have accused the young climate activists of being divisive and unrepresentative; they say this simply isn’t true

  • Tunicia Phillips
6 min read
Regional human rights bodies such as the African Court issue judgments that support fundamental freedoms. Often these decisions overrule rulings made by governments.
ACHPR

Why are African countries undermining the rights bodies they created?

African states are starting to withdraw from rights bodies when rulings go against them

  • David Kode
5 min read
Significant public attention in relation to Covid-19 has focused on the economic dimensions of the virus resulting in joblessness and deprivation on a monumental scale.
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Censorship, surveillance could be the biggest rights challenges post Covid-19

The impacts of these infringements could last well beyond the life of the Covid-19 pandemic

  • Mandeep Tiwana
  • Marianna Belalba Barreto
4 min read
Democratic freedom is a prize humanity can only maintain by constantly standing in unity to protect it against all odds.
ACTIVISM

The restriction of basic freedoms has become the global norm

Civil liberties are eroding in six out of 10 countries, according to a new report

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
Tshwane protests (Nelius Rademan/Beeld/Gallo Images)
BRICS

Hope for citizen voice, despite ‘narrowed’ civic space

‘The Civicus Monitor, an online tool that tracks threats to civil society around the world, rates South Africa’s civic space as "narrowed"’

  • Ine Van Severen
5 min read