Examples of SAHRC in a sentence
The SAHRC observed that this amounted to a withdrawal rate of almost four times that of typical violent crime.
South African Human Rights Commission, Report on the SAHRC Investigation into Issues of Rule of Law, Justice and Impunity arising out of the 2008 Public Violence against Non-Nationals, Johannesburg: South African Human Rights Commission, 2010: 68.
In response to an enquiry from the SAHRC regarding progress on cases related to the 2008 xenophobic violence, the DOJCD responded: “Of 597 cases, only 159 had been finalised with a verdict (98 guilty; 61 not guilty), while 218 had been withdrawn by October2009”.
In 1998 the SAHRC, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the National Consortium for Refugee Affairs jointly launched the ‘Roll Back Xenophobia’ campaign.
Despite efforts from a range of stakeholders, including hearings on xenophobia in 2004 held jointly by the SAHRC and the Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs, as well as concerns cited by the African Peer Review Mechanism 2007 report, there was little concerted effort by government departments to address violence against foreign nationals.