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Addressing Vulnerability and Promoting Security: Views from Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is decidedly heterogeneous when it comes to the interests and normative underpinnings that frame each country's interpretation of the notion of security, not to mention the capacity...
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Foreign Policy and Human Rights: the Role of South Africa
"The world needs South Africa’s positive engagement, on behalf of the victims of violations worldwide," said Amnesty International's Secretary General, Salil Shetty, at an event today co-hosted by SAIIA.
View ArticleWill Rising Democracies Adopt Pro-human Rights Foreign Policies?
SAIIA Policy Briefing No 105, September 2014
View ArticleAfrica and the Global Human Rights Agenda: The African Group at the UN Human...
SAIIA Policy Briefing No 108, October 2014
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Human rights in a multipolar world
How do emerging democracies act on human rights concerns, particularly in a multipolar international system where most states consistently choose self-interest over values? This question and others...
View ArticleThe Courts: Lights That Guide Our Foreign Affairs?
SAIIA Occasional Paper No 203, October 2014
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Health for all: a pro-poor human rights approach
In recent years there has been growing global awareness of the interplay between rights and the development process and a generalised recognition of social determinants of health as a point of entry to...
View ArticleRents, Rights and Restructuring: Namibia’s Lessons for the Governance of...
SAIIA Occasional Paper No 207, December 2014
View ArticleA Critical Analysis of Human Rights Due Diligence Processes in Mineral Supply...
SAIIA Occasional Paper No 208, December 2014
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Chief Executive's Address: Looking to 2015
Happy new year to all our partners and friends! The year that has gone was characterised by South Africa’s fifth democratic elections, the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, and the growing power of...
View ArticleDiplomatic Briefing: the 2015 South African political landscape
In the lastest in SAIIA's series of briefings exclusively for our diplomatic members and funding partners, we were pleased to host Dr Mzukisi Qobo, SAIIA Research Associate, on 'Prospects for 2015: the...
View ArticleAfrica’s Evolving Continental Court Structures: At the Crossroads?
SAIIA Occasional Paper No 209, January 2015
View ArticleA Promise Betrayed: Policies and Practice Renew the Rural Dispossession of...
SAIIA Policy Briefing No 124, January 2015
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Getting media freedom right in Africa?
The Sharpeville Massacre is deeply engrained in the pages of South African history. The events of 21 March 1960 are now commemorated on Human Rights Day.
View ArticleR2P, the International Criminal Court and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities...
SAIIA Policy Briefing No 132, March 2015
View ArticleR2P and the Protection of Civilians: South Africa’s Perspective on Conflict...
SAIIA Policy Briefing No 133, March 2015
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Battling Violence against Women: From Africa’s Top to Toe
Combating gender-based violence was a key theme raised by African countries at the March 2015 session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland. It is clear that this is...
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Omo Africa ni mi! Ke MoAfrika! I am an African!
Twenty-one years ago, South Africa returned to the international community. More importantly it returned to the continent to reclaim its African identity. A few years later Thabo Mbeki's African...
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SAIIA Youth Policy Committee says no to xenophobia in South Africa!
We the members of the SAIIA Youth Policy Committee, firmly condemn the recent xenophobic attacks and violence against foreign nationals in South Africa.
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Lessons for South Africa: How Zambia prevented xenophobia
‘Isaac, we can no longer go to the movie today. We have a curfew,’ my late dad told me. ‘I understand, dad,’ I responded – and I genuinely did. This was a conversation taking place on a Saturday at...
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