Prison Conditions And Human Rights
This paper examines human rights as they apply to prisoners, focusing chiefly on South Africa.
19 Sep 1996
Prison Conditions and Human Rights
Anti-gay Hate Crimes: Need For Police Involvement To Curb Violence Committed Against Gays
This paper tracks the extent and nature of anti-gay hate crimes, looking primarily at the South African context. It also looks at the involvement of police in perpetuating these crimes, and makes several recommendations for improving relations between the police and the gay community.
24 Apr 1996
Between Acknowledgement And Ignorance: How White South Africans Have Dealt With The Apartheid Past
This report examines the way ordinary people – Germans after 1945 and South Africans after 1994- deal with an authoritarian past. The report considers how the past is perceived; to what extent people accept the new political order and its democratic values; and how they react to institutions such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which try to deal with and uncover the legacies of the past. Previously published survey data from Germany and South Africa is reviewed and new empirical findings are presented from a nation-wide telephone survey of 124 white South Africans.
01 Mar 1996
Putting A Face On The Past: Survivor-offender Mediation And The Truth And Reconciliation Commission
Recently, a group of NGOs have been meeting to 'think-tank' the concept of Victim-Offender Mediation (VOM) as a practical link to assist the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to deal with the process of reconciliation. This consortium of NGOs was convened by Centre of Study of Violence and Reconciliation and the Letsema Conflict Transformation Resource of Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre. This paper gives a brief overview of the VOM concept, a proposed structure for Survivor-Offender Mediation in the South African TRC context, and some suggestions regarding the way forward.
20 Feb 1996
South Africa's Prison Conditions: The Inmates Talk
This paper aims to establish what prisoners actually experience in prison and to make the public aware of what happens to those offenders whom society condemns to prison. In May 1996, Amanda Dissel visited Leeuwkop Maximum Prison and Modderbee Prison to talk to prisoners about their experiences in prison. The paper summaries her findings.
03 Feb 1996
Comments On The Kampala Declaration
Between 19 and 21 September 1996, 133 delegates from 47 countries, including 40 African countries, met in Kampala, Uganda. The President of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Ministers of State, Prison Commissioners, Judges and international, regional and national non-governmental organisations concerned with prison conditions all worked together to find common solutions to the problems facing African prisons. The three days of intensive deliberations produced the Kampala Declaration on Prison Conditions in Africa which was adopted by consensus at the closure of the conference. This paper provides a critical discussion of the declaration.
03 Feb 1996