human rights Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/human-rights/ Arts and African History Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:01:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Western legal philosophy of conquest, the ANC and the ideology of Human Rights in “South Africa” https://consciousness.co.za/western-legal-philosophy-of-conquest-the-anc-and-the-ideology-of-human-rights-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/western-legal-philosophy-of-conquest-the-anc-and-the-ideology-of-human-rights-in-south-africa/#respond Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:01:11 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15091 Introduction Before the dominance of the Charterist tradition, as represented by the African National Congress (ANC) as a civil rights movement, 21 March 1960 was celebrated as the day of the Sharpeville Massacre. This massacre of Africans by the Apartheid regime was the most violent expression of settler colonialism in “South Africa”[1]. The uprising, leading [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/human-rights-day/feed/ 0 FREE WEST PAPAU!!!! — West Papua – The secret war in Asia https://consciousness.co.za/free-west-papau-west-papua-the-secret-war-in-asia/ https://consciousness.co.za/free-west-papau-west-papua-the-secret-war-in-asia/#comments Wed, 21 May 2014 08:00:20 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=6639 SPREAD AWARENESS VISIT WWW.FREEWESTPAPAU.ORG Human Rights WARNING – the following article contains some disturbing images. Ever since the invasion of West Papua over fifty years ago, the Indonesian security forces have committed a never ending catalogue of extreme human rights violations. Over 500,000 civilians have been killed in a genocide against the indigenous population. Thousands [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/free-west-papau-west-papua-the-secret-war-in-asia/feed/ 1 What was the 1994 expectation of the man, woman and the homosexual? A contemporary view of Human Rights https://consciousness.co.za/what-was-the-1994-expectation-of-the-man-woman-and-the-homosexual-a-contemporary-view-of-human-rights/ https://consciousness.co.za/what-was-the-1994-expectation-of-the-man-woman-and-the-homosexual-a-contemporary-view-of-human-rights/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:02:42 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=6542 Was Bob Marley merely talking about racial justice when he said “You can fool some people sometime, but you can’t fool all the people all the time, and now you see the light, you gonna stand up for your right”? What goes on in the mind of one dying as a result of doing what [...]

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