Those quick to diarise days off work will no doubt already be casting their minds ahead to the next public holiday.

Yoon’s December 3 martial law decree, banning all political activities and suspending freedoms of speech and assembly, was an extraordinary attack on human rights ... events that unfolded in ...

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Jimmy Carter was the first U_S_ president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring “the day of the so-called ... who made human rights central to U.S. foreign policy and made ...

Although South Africans will enjoy one fewer public holiday in 2025, there will be more long weekends next year than in 2024.

I am standing on a dune looking out to sea. It's 2024, but I'm thinking about a very different time. Hundreds of thousands of years ago this 350km stretch of southern African coast looked very ...

18 December is International Migrants Day. To mark this day, we honour the contributions of migrants throughout the Eastern and Southern Africa region ... of their human rights leave a long ...

That will be Human Rights ... day that is commemorated annually on 21 March to remind South Africans about the sacrifices that accompanied the struggle for the attainment of democracy in South Africa.

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA The pontiff connected the themes of peace and human dignity to the celebration of Mary ... raised in Bavaria and South Africa, served as editor-in-chief of several ...

The New York-based rights ... day for the next month before she fled. HRW met Hasina at Camp Al-Hailu, a makeshift facility with little to no resources for internally displaced civilians in South ...

Amid everything else on his desk — the Iran hostage crisis, domestic economic turmoil, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and ...

Human Rights Day in South Africa is historically linked with 21 March 1960, and the events of Sharpeville. On that day 69 people died and 180 were wounded when police fired on a peaceful crowd that ...