INOVAS joins victims and survivors in marking UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June

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INOVAS, within the framework of UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, condemns torture as a degrading act, currently practiced by states and governments across the world. INOVAS considers torture an abhorrent crime that is an affront to human dignity, that should be criminalised so that its prepetrators are prosecuted. It is a … Read more

INOVAS calls for UN to Act to Stop the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions in East Jerusalem and to the Grassroots Resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

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We, the undersigned human rights defenders, civil society organisations and victims’ associations comprising the International Network of Victims and Survivors of Serious Human Rights Abuses (INOVAS) strongly condemn the Israeli government’s ongoing aggression towards Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah district. We stand in solidarity with the decades-long Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation … Read more

INOVAS Stands with The Protest Movement in Colombia Demanding Social Justice, Human Rights and Peace

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We, the undersigned human rights defenders, civil society organisations and victims’ associations comprising the International Network of Victims and Survivors of Serious Human Rights Abuses (INOVAS), strongly condemn the ongoing repressive conduct of the Colombian government in the face of legitimate protests by the Colombian people calling for social justice, human rights and peace.

Khulumani Notification 1 January 2021: FALSE AND/OR CRIMINALLY FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION

FALSE AND/OR CRIMINALLY FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION Since 27 April 2019, any claim by MS S R GUNN, MS J A SEIDMAN and MS N BONASE, “the dismissed and expelled individuals”, to be members of and/or to represent Khulumani Support Group is false and, depending on circumstances, could constitute criminally fraudulent misrepresentation. Following dissatisfaction voiced by Khulumani … Read more

Submission from the Civil Society Peace Team on the deployment of the SANDF and SAPS in efforts to manage an effective lockdown to protect citizens from a potential COVID-19 catastrophe

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Statement crafted for the President’s Consultative Meeting of 17 April 2020 with the assistance of the Khulumani Support Group We understand the decision of the President to deploy members of the South African Police Services (SAPS) along with members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to ensure compliance of citizens with the measures … Read more

Attack on the Casual Workers’ Advice Office in Germiston – how you can help

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Khulumani learned with deep concern of the Monday 2 September 2019 attack on one of our partners with whom we have been pursuing the Unpaid Benefits Campaign – the Casual Workers’ Advice Office in Germiston, Johannesburg. The GroundUp article describes what happened in the afternoon and evening of last Monday. We cannot imagine who could … Read more

Khulumani’s New Board Asserts their Governance and Strategic Leadership of Khulumani Support Group towards Ending the Struggle for Power and Control of the Organisation – 24 July 2019

Khulumani Support Group unequivocally rejects the findings of the so-called “disciplinary hearing” of its national director held by deposed former board members on the 28th of May 2019. The individuals pursuing this illegitimate action were removed from their positions at a constitutionally mandated AGM held on the 27th of April 2019, and thus do not have any authority within Khulumani Support Group, or to act on its behalf.

South Africa mourns the passing on 16 January 2019 of one of its Truth Commissioners, Mr Hugh Lewin

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An edited Tribute to Hugh Lewin, by his lifelong friend, Paul Trewhela. Hugh Lewin died peacefully yesterday, 16 January 2019, at his home in Killarney,
Johannesburg. He was a person of exceptional good-ness. He sought for no high office, and never trumpeted his name. He always did what he thought was right, no matter what the cost.