The Bill of Rights is the most important part of our Constitution as ordinary people are concerned and is stated under section 7 (1) of the Constitution to be ‘a conerstone of democracy in South Africa’.
Accountability Now is commemorating Human Rights Day with 27 days of activism, highlighting one right per day for 27 days on social media. IFAISA will be encouraging the press to support this initiative through articles and discussion.
We are pleased to announce that for the 27 days following the celebration of Human Rights Day we will be unpacking and discussing the human rights guaranteed to all in the Bill of Rights day by day section by section on social media as follows:
Day 1 22/3 Section 9: Equality
Day 2 23/3 Section 10: Human Dignity
Day 3 24/3 Section 11: Life
Day 4 25/3 Section 12: Freedom of Security of the person
Day 5 26/3 Section 13: Slavery, servitude and forced labour
Day 6 27/3 Section 14: Privacy
Day 7 28/3 Section 15: Freedom of religion, belief and opinion
Day 8 29/3 Section 16: Freedom of expression
Day 9 30/3 Section 17: Assembly, demonstration, picket and petition
Day 10 31/3 Section 18: Freedom of association
Day 11 1/4 Section 19: Political rights
Day 12 2/4 Section 20: Citizenship
Day 13 3/4 Section 21: Freedom of movement and residence
Day 14 4/4 Section 22: Freedom of trade, occupation and profession
Day 15 5/4 Section 23: Labour relations
Day 16 6/4 Section 24: Environment
Day 17 7/4 Section 25: Property
Day 18 8/4 Section 26: Housing
Day 19 9/4 Section 27: Health care, food, water and social security
Day 20 10/4 Section 28: Children
Day 21 11/4 Section 29: Education
Day 22 12/4 Section 30: Language and culture
Day 23 13/4 Section 31: Cultural, religious and linguistic communities
Day 24 14/4 Section 32: Access to information
Day 25 15/4 Section 33: Just administrative action
Day 26 16/4 Section 34: Access to courts
Day 27 17/4 Section 35: Arrested, detained and accused persons
We have identified experts and opinion leaders on the various human rights whose contact details we are willing to share for interview purposes with members of the media who wish to participate actively in our ongoing 27 day celebration of the Bill of Rights. Please share our daily posts if you support human rights.
The campaign #KnowYour27Rights, can be followed on:
The IFAISA website: https://accountabilitynow.org.za/
Facebook page: Accountability Now – Ifaisa
Twitter page: AccountNow_SA
Congratulations on a great campaign idea! Good luck with the rolling out of the campaign and with your advocacy of the establishment of an Integrity Commission under Chapter Nine of the Coonstitution, a much needed step in confronting and combatting corruption, the arch enemy of human rights
Thank you Robert. Please do share the daily posts with your networks. Will start tomorrow. #HumanRightsDay #KnowYour27Rights
It is a BASIC human RIGHT to BREATHE IN fresh air-even when LIVING in apartment buildings. To SMOKE tobacco products, is a CHOICE. Any smoker who quits smoking this moment, improves his chances to prolong LIFE. Should anyone stop BREATHING in this moment, DEATH is an inevitable CONSEQUENCE…Why are the RIGHTS of NON SMOKERS NOT actively being protected by the Body Corporate of apartment buildings?
that the material already exists but ends up on the cutting room floor (or whatever the digital equivalent is.)221;Which is where it should stay, along with a lot more that makes it to air, masquerading as news. The only time a station of this kind could be valuable is when major news breaks. A full swing to bushfires or an earthquake, for instance, would be a push forward from often long delays.