South Africa §

• The Republic of South Africa (RSA)
• Languages: isiZulu, English, isiXhosa, Afrikaans
• 1M Km${}^2$

Human Rights Situation of South Africa §

• Human rights has been progressing since democratic system in 1994
  • Embeded in constitution
  • Considerable progress to social cohesion and national identity
  • Addressed
    • Inequality
    • Poverty
    • Unemployment

Problems in South Africa §

• Discrimination
  • Racism: Xenophobia against minority white people
  • Gender Equality: there is rape, and physical violence
    • Based on person’s sexuality
    • Against underaged children
  • LGBT: violence against it, homophobia
• Health
  • Stigma against people who have Sexually transmitted diseases (HIV)
    • 6M people with HIV
    • 3M with no access to antiretroviral drugs
  • Underaged??

Universal Period Review §

• Past UPR 2013 & 2014 led to many acts being adopted to improve human rights
• 2016 Developments
  • National Act Plan against Racism
  • Bills on hate crime, hate speech
  • better welfare of people: education, living standards, health

Human Rights System §

• South Africa does include result on UPR into its human rights action plan
• Reports to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): on third cycle progress
• Have national task team to address gender and sexual violence

References §

1. 2022-05-20 IS407 Group 2 Presentation