Monthly Archive: December 2015
The Right2Know Campaign presents the 2016 Champions for the Right to Know Calendar! The calendar celebrates some of the country’s courageous individuals and organisations that have made an important contribution to advancing the right...
“We want decent, adequate housing as is our right in the Constitution. Everyone has a right to information and everyone has a right to take part in these decisions.” Blikkiesdorp – Tin Can Town...
Marikana Support Campaign used MINERS SHOT DOWN to campaign effectively for justice for the murdered Marikana miners. MSC in partnership with other organisations have been working tirelessly to ensure that the truth about what happened...
Nkosi is a community journalist and newspaper publisher. He publishes Ziwaphi, an investigative newspaper in Mpumalanga. He has been threatened with criminal defamation for publishing allegations that two former members of the Congress of the...
Moyo is a community organiser in Makause, an informal settlement near Germiston. He has become a leading figure in challenging the apartheid-era Intimidation Act, a law used to stifle freedom of expression. As an...
This article below was published by News24: 2015-12-13 19:30 Karabo Ngoepe, News24 Pretoria – The Right2Know Campaign has described the proposed the cyber-crime bill as flawed. The organisation said the legislation was designed in a way...
What’s wrong with the draft Cybercrimes & Cybersecurity Bill? Here are the submissions made by a range of local and international organisations: AccessNow Association of Progressive Communications Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Monitoring Africa Mozilla...
Over the years the Right2Know Campaign has evolved into an octopus of an organisation tackling a wide range of issues through a complex network of structures with different mechanisms of accountability. The Campaign belongs to its supporters....
The recent #FeesMustFall protests and related actions on various campuses put the right to protest in the national spotlight. Across many different campuses, there were reports of human rights violations, including police brutality, intimidation,...