Clean air, clear conscience

South Africans are no novices with disappointment, particularly when it comes from the people we have placed our trust in and given our power to. We know what to say when our rights are at risk: “It is enshrined in the Constitution!” But despite our best efforts to reinforce this sentence at every violation, we are consistently let down by our country’s leadership.

Standing up for human rights

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is tasked with promoting and encouraging respect for human rights for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion, as stipulated in the United Nations’s 1945 Charter, the intergovernmental organisation’s the foundational treaty.