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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid adopted by the General Assembly in 1973 stated that apartheid was a crime against humanity. 11 The Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity36 stipulated that ... additional powers on the Committee or provided for a concurrent process to deal with those cases. 31. In a few cases, the Committee found that gross human rights violations that did not fall within the ambit of the Act had occurred during and as a result of the conflicts of the past. These related ... ... WERE KILLED, HUNDREDS OF HOMES LOOTED AND BURNT DOWN AND AS MANY AS 20 000 PEOPLE WERE FORCED TO FLEE FROM THEIR HOMES. THESE ACTS CONSTITUTE GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, AND UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF INKATHA ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT UNKNOWN YOUNG UDF AND ANC SUPPORTERS WHO ... the submission made by the PAC. 35. The first objection that the PAC raises in the submission is that the Commission labelled it a gross violator of human rights. The PAC argues that, if the Commission determined that its struggle was just, it was contradictory to find it a violator of g ross ... ■ INFORMATION MANAGEMENT27 The Human Rights Violations and Amnesty Committees also referred information to the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee. In addition, the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee generated information through its own activities, such as briefers’ reports, ... ... into activities of the SADF showed that the secrecy with which the SADF operated provided the basis for operations and programmes that led to gross human rights violations. The Commission therefore recommends that: MEMBERS OF THE SANDF SHOULD NOT BE ENTITLED TO ENGAGE IN ANY COVERT ACTIVITIES NOT ... ... we must know that the job continues. The mammoth task that still lies ahead is the continuous and consistent struggle for justice and protection of human rights, especially gender justice and gender rights. The frightening statistics of violence against women and children which has reached, in ... ... 5 (Findings Volume), the basis upon which it found, on a balance of probabilities, that the SADF and Inkatha are nonetheless accountable for the human rights violations committed by Caprivi trainees. The main features of the finding are as follows: 10. Volume 3, Chapter 3, first ... ... of those states; and further that these domestically generated foreign wars and military operations resulted in the gross violation of the human rights of non-South African nationals on a vast scale. k Evidence presented under oath to the Commission that the weapons used in a ... ... and treatment 86 The abuse of diagnostic tools by mental health professionals in collusion with the state must be regarded as a violation of human rights. Diagnosis was used to silence activists or opponents of the state, condemning them to institutions where they were under state control. ... ... collective organisation and as part of a broader society from which doctors were drawn, that it failed to see the need to treat all people as equal human beings. Perhaps the same could be said of other groupings in society. MASA allowed black and white people to be treated differently, and this ... ... the Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee (RRC) began the bulk of its administrative work at the tail end of the processes of both the Human Rights Violations Committee (HRVC) and the Amnesty Committee. The RRC received its first list of victims’76 findings from the HRVC in ... ... the South African Nursing Association) offered appropriate or adequate guidance and support for nurses who found themselves in situations where human rights were abused. 118 The SANC admitted in its submission: We further acknowledge and accept without justification that Council was ... ... or co-ordinate, enquiries into… iii) The identity of all persons, authorities, institutions and organizations involved in gross violations of human rights; iv) The question whether such violations were the result of deliberate planning on the part of the State or a former state or any of ... FINDINGS OF THE COMMISSION IN RESPECT OF THE FORMER STATE AND ITS ORGANS Categories of gross human rights violations defined in the Act State responsibility for torture 16. The Commission found in its five-volume Final Report that torture was systematic and widespread in the ranks of the South ... ... in the former SADF. You really erred in your assumption, and the expectations you created in public, that the SADF was guilty of gross violation of human rights on a substantial scale. 15 In the light of the Commission’s findings that the security forces, including the SADF, were responsible ... Volume FIVE Chapter NINE Reconciliation ■ INTRODUCTION1 The Commission sought to highlight the deep damage inflicted by past gross human rights violations on human relationships in South Africa. While the main conflict was between a state representing a white minority and an oppressed black ... Inadequate teaching of ethics and human rights 67 None of the health science faculties made the teaching of ethics and human rights a priority. Most often, courses on these subjects were optional and the students were not tested on the material, thus reducing their incentive to attend the ... Were the SDUs responsible for the commission of gross human rights violations? 99. The picture that emerges from the amnesty process is that communities found themselves in conflict with the IFP and the state. As they could not rely on protection from the organs of the state, they felt compelled ... ... for Armscor [manufacturing military equipment for the apartheid state] for five or six years in the 1980s, is all of a sudden much softer, more human and more able to talk to me … It is almost as if the silence is ending, as if we are waking up from a long bad nightmare. 13 Storytelling ... |
