This is a guest post by Jane Duncan who is a member the Right 2 Know Campaign, a South African campaigns group that is a member of the Privacy International Network. On 23rd March the United Nations Human Rights Committee released its assessment o...
Tag: Civil Liberties
Cyril Ramaphosa’s Pink Problem in Iran
FOR A DEPUTY-PRESIDENT who likes to claim responsibility for drafting a Secular Constitution and Bill of Rights that includes Gay Rights and other freedoms associated with the LGBT community, a visit to Iran must present a number of awkward problems. Chief of which is the Iranian Penal Code. Lesb...
His master’s voice – apartheid censor board mooted, targeting online content
THE Films and Publications Board has mooted a proposal for the classification of online content that could result in the removal of free speech and communications freedoms guaranteed by South Africa's constitution. The proposal would also seriously compromise the principle of net neutrality. The...
Habib is our Hero of the Hour
Adam Habib is the man at the centre of a storm surrounding United States' government ideological exclusions resulting from the Patriot Act and continued onslaught by the Bush administration on academic and intellectual freedom. As a blogger who believes strongly in these rights as well as the rig...
Ideological Exclusion: Habib visa refusal challenged
NEW YORK – A leading US civil liberties group mounted a legal challenge against the US government on Wednesday over its refusal to grant a visa to a leading South African Muslim academic. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the case in Boston challenging the US Departments of State and Homel...
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