This National AccessAbility Week is an opportunity to recommit to the removal of barriers and making Canada more accessible for everyone. Accessibility is a human right. Yet, people with disabilities continue to face barriers and discrimination. In 2023, the majority of complaints accepted by the Canadian Human Rights Commission were based on disability discrimination. Disability
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24 Mar 2024 Chris Barron asked South African Human Rights Commission HRC chair CHRIS NISSEN... We have the best human rights in the world on paper, don't we? Of course. The world admires our bill of human rights, and chapter nine of the constitution gives the mandate to the HRC to fulfil it. So why
Complaints , Home About News media releases Commission welcomes new President Commission welcomes new President , Commission – General , The Australian Human Rights Commission welcomes the appointment of Hugh de Kretser as the new President to succeed Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM, who departs at the end of July after a seven-year term. The
22 Mar 2024 In his Human Rights Day address yesterday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the critics of load shedding should cut government some slack because under apartheid a lot of people were denied electricity. The president said this while delivering his keynote address at the George Thabe Cricket Pitch in Sharpeville yesterday, following a wreathlaying
