• Members of the Campaign to Domesticate the Convention Against Torture address the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on Torture in South African Prisons, 30 November 2011.
  • Right to Education for Children with Disabilities Campaign Seminar, 17 November 2011.
  • Right to Education for Children with Disabilities Campaign seminar, 17 November 2011.
  • In early 2011, CLC's SER Project and the Parliamentary Programme, with Black Sash, Peoples' Health Movement SA, National Welfare Forum and Global Call to Action against Poverty, organised three strategy meetings on the ratification by South Africa of the ICESCR and its Optional Protocol.
  • On 2 February 2011, the Parliamentary Programme and the Children's Rights Project hosted a round table discussion with international expert on the rights of persons with disabilities, Professor Michael Stein, from Harvard University.
  • The purpose of the roundtable discussion with Professor Michael Stein was to engage campaign partners in a discussion on strengthening advocacy on the right to education for children with disabilities.
 

Global to local - People to parliament

The Community Law Centre Parliamentary Programme uses international human rights law and the South African Constitution to advocate for the realisation of the rights of children, women, persons deprived of their liberty, and people living in poverty.

We work to ensure that South Africa’s policy and legislative framework is in line with international and Constitutional obligations and to improve the capacity of National and Provincial Parliaments to exercise their oversight function over government departments’ implementation of basic human rights. Importantly, we are committed to strengthening civil society participation in parliament’s legislative reform and oversight roles and to improving the flow of information between international treaty bodies, parliaments and civil society. Through this we aim to strengthen participatory democracy and the realisation of human rights in South Africa.

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