Today, 10 May 2017, South Africa’s human rights record will come under scrutiny at the United Nations Human Rights Council. This will include a review of South Africa’s surveillance policies, following a submission by...
R2K is appalled to learn that Mineral Commodities Limited (MRC), an Australian mining company is suing a West Coast community activist and two Centre for Environmental Rights attorneys for defamation. We view this as...
R2K trusts South Africans to engage critically in the events surrounding the alleged “coup plotter” arrested by the Hawks on Wednesday. The evidence available does not suggest a credible threat to our constitutional democracy....
The Right2Know Campaign views the recent break-in at the SABC’s office in Parliament as an attack on the public broadcaster and on Parliament itself. We are particularly concerned that journalists’ computers were targeted in...
The Right2Know Campaign has published STOP THE SURVEILLANCE, an activist guide to communications surveillance in South Africa. Nearly everyone in South Africa knows about a law called “RICA” (the Regulation of Interception of Communications...
The Right2Know Campaign has published This article is an extract from Stop the Surveillance, a publication on communications surveillance in South Africa. Case Study 1: amaBhungane journalist bugged In 2015, it emerged that unknown...
Today as we commemorate the deaths of 69 protesters who were gunned down in 1960 in Sharpeville and kwaLanga for refusing to carry a dompas or pass book, we cannot help but express deep...
What may Xolobeni and Glebelands have in common? Reflect on universal rights and shared wrongs for a minute-and-a-half this Human Rights Day MARCH 21 is Human Rights Day. 21 years ago, universally recognised human...
“Any person caught in possession of, generating, sharing or passing on abusive, threatening, subversive or offensive telecommunication messages… that may be deemed to cause despondency, incite violence, threaten citizens and cause unrest, will be...
R2K has demanded that the University of Johannesburg comes clean about the contracts and services it has with private security firms. This comes after eNCA Checkpoint’s explosive report on the use of undercover private...
