There are opportunities to support the aim of opening up borders through incremental initiatives and reforms.
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There is a need to create regional or continent-wide regulatory frameworks for protection of African gig workers.
South Africa has fallen short in one key aspect when it comes to championing human rights on the continent.
Political protests in Kenya have become insular, sectarian, tribal and unashamedly personality driven.
Discrimination against anyone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity is not an African value.
Governments must take urgent action to prevent noncommunicable diseases from becoming an uncontrollable epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation offers a potential solution.
Arbitrary detention and torture are both prohibited under local and international laws.
Providers of humanitarian aid haven’t been able to reach civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. There are also reports that hundreds of civilians have been killed.
False information about the new coronavirus is a big threat to containing the pandemic but governments must not use ‘fake news’ as an excuse to limit freedom of expression.
South Africa’s electoral commission’s failure to ensure a credible voters’ roll threatens to undo its legacy of free and fair elections.
After decades of human rights abuses against Africans living with mental and other disability, the African Commission has finally drafted a protocol to the African Charter to protect their rights.
A dispute between the African Union’s executive and the commission responsible for overseeing human rights could weaken the protection of peoples’ rights.
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Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, and acting SARChI Chair in International Constitutional Law, University of Pretoria
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Programme manager of the Master's in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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International Relations Scholar, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Law, University of the Western Cape
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa
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Professor, Université de Lubumbashi
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development, University of Edinburgh
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Senior Research Fellow New South Institute, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Reader in Law, SOAS, University of London
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town