South Africa
State Reports
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South Africa: 1st Periodic Report, 1999-2001 Submitted: 14 May 2005Concluding Observations: available
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South Africa: Initial Report, 1996-1998 Submitted: 1 January 1998
Mission Reports
- South Africa: Prisons and Detention Conditions, 2004
Special Mechanism: Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of DetentionCommissioner: Vera Mlanguzwa Chirwa
- South Africa: Promotion Mission, 2001
Commissioner: Andrew Ranganayi Chigovera
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Press Releases
- World Press Freedom Day03 May 2013
- Press Release on the Meeting of the Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights Violations in Africa25 April 2013
- Joint statement by the Chairperson of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on the death of a Mozambican taxi driver Mido Macia in South Africa15 March 2013
- Press Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Robben Island Guidelines and on the Deaths of Miners at the Lonmin Marikana Mine27 August 2012
- Press Release on the Meeting of the Working Group on the Death Penalty in Africa13 August 2012
- Press Release of the Meeting of the Working Group on the Death Penalty in Africa15 March 2011
Adopted Resolutions
Decisions on Communications
NGO Statements
Ratification Tables
The list of binding legal instruments this country has signed or ratified
NGOs Granted Observer Status
- Lawyers for Human Rights
- Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
- Centre for Applied Legal Studies
- National Institute for Public Interest Law and Research
- Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)
- Community Law and Rural Development Centre
- Institute for Democracy in South Africa
- Indigenous Peoples of Africa
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
- Community Law Centre
- Zimbabwe Exiles Forum
- African Policing Civilian Oversight (APCOF)
- People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA)
- Legal Resources Centre
- Coalition for an Effective African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Human Rights Development Initiative (HRDI)
- Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa
- Southern Africa Litigation Centre
- Open Society Initiative of South Africa (OSISA)
- African Decade of Persons with Disabilities - Secretariat
- World Alliance for Citizen Participation (CIVICUS)
NHRI Affiliate Status
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