South Africa stands by constitutional and international principles The following is an extract from the Legal Resources Centre 2012 Annual Report The LRC represented the Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty earlier in 2012 in a Constitutional Court case concerning the extradition of two Botswana nationals on murder charges. Mr Tsebe and Mr […]
Category Archives: Africa
Africa, Extractive Industries, Legal Resources Centre, Regional Work
Free Prior and Informed Consent for Indigenous Communities
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Mar
Mar
The LRC’s regional project focuses on the protection of community rights to resources and, in particular, aims to find ways in which to improve the imbalance of power between rural communities in Africa and those interested in their resources; be they government or potential investors. The imbalance of power is not only a function of […]
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Oct
Last week I attended an African regional dialogue at the Pan-African Parliament in Midrand, Gauteng, to discuss the “Post-2015 Development Framework”, a pseudonym for the vision of development after the expiration of targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Considering the discussion centred on governance in Africa, subsequent thoughts on the meeting have been in […]