MEDIA ADVISORY: People’s Hearing for South Africa’s Human Rights Defenders
MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release Date: 16 October 2025 People’s Hearing to Highlight Attacks and Threats on South Africa’s Human Rights Defenders 22 October 2025 | Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill | Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa. The Life After Coal campaign, a coalition of Earthlife Africa, groundWork, and the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) will convene a strategic People’s Hearing for Human Rights […]
Daily Maverick Article on 2023 Event
GroundWork, the Centre for Environmental Rights and several other civil society organisations marched to police headquarters in Pretoria to demand widespread protection for human rights activists and whistle-blowers. This follows a spate of threats, attacks and killings of land rights and climate activists and whistle-blowers in South Africa.