The Khulumani Forum Theatre Group is currently creating a Forum Theatre production that highlights the oppression of women and children through the use of violence. On International Women's Day, 8 March 2013, the group presented some of their work using Image Theatre on Park Station Bridge in central Johannesburg.

They joined other concerned citizens who had gathered in Rissik Street as a part of the Drumming Campaign (organised by mehlo-maya) to voice outrage at the level of violence in our society.

As a membership organisation committed to social justice and the transformation of social relationships in South Africa, Khulumani Support Group appreciates the thoughtful questions raised by the blogger ragamuffin (Linda Martindale) in her piece called Let's Play Join the Dots (and shared more widely by Kairos Southern Africa).

Tomorrow, 2 March 2013, Khulumani members from the Northern Free State have organised an all-day meeting in Zamdela township. The agenda includes debate on the following issues:

BREAKING NEWS from The Philippines: Khulumani welcomes the news of the signing into effect of a new reparations law in the Philippines on the twenty-seventh anniversary of the ending of the Marcos regime.

With thanks to Mr Ruben Carranza, Director of the Reparative Justice Program of the International Center for Transitional Justice, New York. 

Khulumani is awaiting a decision from the United State Supreme Court of Appeal in the case Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum. The case has the potential to affect the capacity to hold corporations accountable for aiding and abetting human rights violations.

Amy Goodman conducted an interview in October 2012 with Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights for her programme DEMOCRACY NOW that highlgihts the critical questions that the court is considering. 

On 26 February 2013, Mr Stephane Hessel, passed away at the age of 95 years. Mr Hessel, a French citizen of German origin, was tortured by the Gestapo and survived the Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps.

He became most well-known for his involvement with in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Ten Years since the Final TRC Report, evidence continues of an untransformed police 'service', implicated in yesterday's tragic death of an East Rand taxi owner, Mr Mido Macia 

Human Rights Month 2013 opened with the appalling images of police brutality being unleashed on a taxi owner in Vosloorus on Johannesburg's East Rand.

The report, The Hidden Epidemic amongst Former Mineworkers: Silicosis, Tuberculosis and the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, produced by Jaine Roberts and published by the Health Systems Trust in June 2009, highlights the failure of the TRC's Business Hearings to hold mining companies accountable for the health impacts of their activities on mineworkers.

Ingrid Gubbay, London-based partner in Hausfeld & Co LLP, gave a public lecture in London on February 19, 2013 on Lessons Drawn from the Khulumani Alien Torts Act Case from an International Law Perspective.

The film featuring Khulumani Mamelodi Mother of the Disappeared, Mrs Maria Ntuli wins the first Prize "Grand Prix" at the Paris Human Rights Film Festival last week.

Last week the Film "One Day After Peace" won the first Prize "Grand Prix" at Human Rights Film Festival at Paris France. See review: http://paris-planete.blogs.la-croix.com/de-lafrique-du-sud-a-israel.