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Eleven people who are homeless go to court to challenge Cape Town’s discriminatory by-laws

In UpdatesPosted 7 April, 2021

Last week eleven people experiencing homlessness launched applications in both the Western Cape High Court and the Equality Court (South Africa) challenging the constitutionality and discriminatory impact of two of...

Tags: by-laws, Cape Town, homeless people
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Rwanda Should Stop Locking Up the Poor

In UpdatesPosted 4 February, 2021

Reliefweb 21 December 2020 African Court Decision Condemns Practice The African Court on Human and People’s Rights has held that states’ laws enabling the detention of people who, often because...

Tags: begging, detaining children, detention, deviant behaviour, homeless people, poverty, suspected petty criminals, vagrants
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