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Launch of SANTOC: the SA No Torture Consortium |
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 11:23 |
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 The launch of the South African No Torture Consortium on International Day in Support of Survivors of Torture, June 26, 2008, takes place at an unprecedented historical moment in the region – the withdrawal of the opposition political party in Zimbabwe, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), from the run-off election for President, scheduled for Friday, June 27, 2008.
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On Africa Day, Khulumani 'Speaks Out' against Violent Xenophobia Attacks |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 09:07 |
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 Khulumani Support Group deeply regrets the violent attacks of the past two weeks by some South Africans on vulnerable migrants forced to seek shelter within their communities. Sadly, these attacks have resulted in loss of life, rape, forced displacement, arson and the looting of hard-earned property, all human rights violations of which Khulumani members themselves were victims over the many years of apartheid-era political violence.
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US Supreme Court Clears the Way for Khulumani Lawsuit |
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 08:01 |
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Khulumani welcomes the order issued by the United States Supreme Court yesterday that the judgment of the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in the Khulumani International Lawsuit stands. Today's decision of the Supreme Court means that the critical arguments that corporations should be held accountable for aiding and abetting the perpetration of gross human rights violations, can now be interrogated. |
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Khulumani outrage at appaling attacks on asylum seekers in Johannesburg Central Methodist Church on Jan 30, 2008 |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 17:24 |
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Khulumani Support Group condemns the behaviour of those who conducted the raid on the Johannesburg Central Methodist Church on January 30, 2008 and calls on the South African government to investigate the attack and to take the strongest disciplinary measures against the officials who authorised and oversaw the violation of the human rights of both the asylum-seekers and of the church and its membership who have agreed to the use of their church building to assist asylum-seekers. |
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Khulumani Case in New York's Second Circuit Court of Appeals from January 24, 2006 |
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 17:24 |
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Khulumani Support Group, the membership organisation of around 44,000 victims and survivors of apartheid-era gross human rights violations in South Africa, was assisted to bring the case to the appropriate court in New York in support of their demands for accountability and for redress. For thousands of victims, there remains little to celebrate in this year of the tenth anniversary of the country’s much-respected Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
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Khulumani Wins Lawsuit Appeal ! |
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:55 |
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Khulumani Support Group welcomes the long-awaited decision of the New York circuit court of Appeal to reverse the finding of the district court on its Alien Tort Statute claim (Khulumani et al v. Barclays et al). The court held that liability of corporations for aiding and abetting the perpetration of gross human rights abuses does exist and that it can be pled under the statute. The Alien Tort Statute (ATCA) allows for people anywhere in the world to make claims against United States-based corporations that have caused damage to those people. It must be noted that the businesses listed in the lawsuit chose not to appear before the TRC. |
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Commemoration of International Day of the disappeared |
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 21:00 |
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Khulumani Support Group in collaboration with the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities will commemorate INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE ‘DISAPPEARED’ with a public discussion on Graves and Burial Sites as Spaces of Cultural and Religious Significance & their Implications for Families of Persons who ‘Disappeared’ in the 1st Floor Seminar Room of the CRL Rights Commission in the West Wing of the Women’s Gaol at Constitution Hill. |
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Legal challenge: Prosecution Policy is unconstitutional |
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 00:10 |
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Sister of Nokuthula Simelane and the widows of the Cradock Four as well as Khulumani Support Group, The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), and The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) have launched proceedings in the Pretoria High Court to challenge the validity of amendments to the National Prosecution Policy dealing with apartheid-era crimes. |
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SASOL Ex-Workers to Gather at SASOL's Headquarters on May 2, 2007 |
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Monday, 30 April 2007 11:00 |
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SASOL Ex-Workers are to Gather at SASOL's Headquarters on May 2, 2007 from 10:00 to Remind SASOL of their Failure to Redress Harm Done to their Workers Wrongfully Dismissed nearly 20 years ago Around two thousand four hundred SASOL 1, NATREF and FLUOR workers were unfairly dismissed twenty years ago when they participated in a strike that commenced on October 1, 1987. Some of these workers had service records of between twenty and thirty-five years. Seventy-seven workers lost their lives that day and in the following days, after SASOL's management called on the riot police to intervene. It should be noted that the number of workers killed as a result of SASOL's actions in October 1987 is even greater than the number killed at Sharpeville on 21 March, 1961. SASOL has not yet resolved this shameful event in its Apartheid history. |
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International Day of the Disappeared Event: August 30 |
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 23:00 |
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Khulumani Support Group, the national membership organization of 54,000 victims and survivors of apartheid-era political violence, will be commemorating International Day of the Disappeared on August 30, 2006 at an event at Constitution Hill, between 11:00 and 14:00. The event is being organized in association with the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. |
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President Mbeki: Expunge the Criminal Record of "Sharpeville Six" Survivor Duma Kumalo |
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:00 |
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 Just over one month ago on February 18, 2006, Khulumani Support Group buried its Arts and Culture Officer, Duma Kumalo, one of its founder members. Duma was one of the "Sharpeville Six", sentenced to death on the principle of common purpose for the killing of Sharpeville's Deputy Mayor in 1984 in a outpouring of rage sparked by rent increases in the township.
To mark National Human Rights Day today, Khulumani Support Group is appealing to President Mbeki and to the Honourable Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development to posthumously expunge Duma Kumalo's criminal record, in the interest of justice. |
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Khulumani gatherings to remember Human Rights violations still to be redressed |
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Saturday, 18 March 2006 00:00 |
One month ago on February 18, 2006, Khulumani Support Group buried its Arts and Culture Officer, Duma Kumalo, one of its founder members. Duma was one of the “Sharpeville Six”, sentenced to death on the principle of common purpose for the killing of Sharpeville’s Deputy Mayor in 1984 in a outpouring of rage sparked by rent increases in the township. Through the seven years of the trial and wait on death row, Duma maintained his innocence.
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Khulumani Case in New York's Second Circuit Court of Appeals from January 24, 2006 |
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Friday, 20 January 2006 00:00 |
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One of the most important cases on the agenda of the international human rights movement regarding the extension of a rule of law to multinational corporations, will take place in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, commencing on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 when oral arguments are presented in the Khulumani et al vs Barclays et al lawsuit. |
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Imminent Hearing of Khulumani International Lawsuit Appeal |
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 00:00 |
An appeal against the judgment of the Southern District Court in New York in the Khulumani et. al. v. Barclays et. al lawsuit (“the Khulumani International Lawsuit”) is to be heard in December 2005 or January 2006, in the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in New York.
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Khulumani East Rand protest focusses on TRC "Unfinished Business" |
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Monday, 21 November 2005 00:00 |
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Almost ten years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission first opened its doors in April 1996 and seven years since it handed over its First Report to President Mandela in a special ceremony in Pretoria on October 29, 1998, the victims and survivors of apartheid human rights violations continue to seek redress for the harm done to them, that has left them in need of special measures to ensure their capacity to access the opportunities that have become available since 1994. Khulumani members seek to raise awareness of serious challenges in respect of this “Unfinished Business”. Khulumani’s march and gathering today in the Germiston CBD will focus on this Unfinished Business. |
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Lawsuit Appeal Date set for November 21 in New York |
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Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:00 |
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An appeal against the judgement of the Southern District Court in New York in the Khulumani et. al. v. Barclays et. al lawsuit (“the Khulumani International Lawsuit”) is to be heard on the 21st of November 2005, in the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in New York. |
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Concern about disappearance and detention of two South African Muslim clerics in The Gambia |
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Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:00 |
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Despite yesterday’s newspaper reports that the two Pretoria-based Muslim clerics, Moulana Farhaad Ahmed Dockrat and his son Muaaz, were finalising plans to return home nearly sixteen days after their departure from South Africa on a brief exchange visit to Islamic learning institutions in Senegal and The Gambia, and thirteen days after their scheduled return, the two clerics remain in custody in a detention centre in The Gambia. Moulana Farhaad Ahmed Dockrat is the principal of the Darus Salaam Islamic College in Laudium in Pretoria and Muaaz is a lecturer at the college. |
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October 10: International Day Against the Death Penalty |
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Sunday, 09 October 2005 21:00 |
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Nearly ten years after the ending of the death penalty in South Africa, sixty-three prisoners remain technically under sentence of death, although the death penalty was finally abolished in South Africa in the 1995 Makwanyane Constitutional Court ruling which forbad the state to “to execute any person already sentenced to death” and provided for them to remain in custody until such sentences had been set aside in accordance with law and substituted by lawful punishments.” |
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Khulumani Asks: "Did Business Profit from Apartheid?" |
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Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:00 |
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 Did business profit from apartheid in South Africa?
Can business be held accountable for human rights violations under apartheid? What is the nature of the relationship between business and politics? What role has and can business play in making redress for the past? |
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Vlakplaas Commemoration of International Day of the Disappeared: August 30, 2005 |
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Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:00 |
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There were many disappearances during apartheid and most of these cases remain unresolved. Disappearances are an ongoing worldwide phenomenon. Being a family member of a disappeared person is a kind of daily torture. “There can be no rest, no mourning, no closure as long as the truth has not emerged. This search for the truth is extremely frustrating and painful, and family members are often completely alone in their despair,” says Ewould Plate of the Project Linking Solidarity, which coordinates the lobbying activities of civil society around the world on the issue of enforced disappearances. |
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