Units: Guided Search : Themes Found 302 matches for Human rights - Click the Unit Title for full details

"Need for Change": Black Sash Public Meeting, Cape Town

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Audio Cassette. Side A: Mary Burton speaks on the need for change and introduces the speakers. Sheena Duncan, National President, speaks on education and gives the background to the 16 June 1976 unrest. Catholic Bishop Steven Naidoo speaks on change [. . .]
Date(s): 13 October 1976

"Sash" and human rights: A content analysis 1976-1990

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: M Bibl thesis for University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg) completed in 1995. The journal exposed human rights abuses by the apartheid government and provided organisational information to the wholly female Black Sash membership. The analysis utilises [. . .]
Date(s): 1976-1990

'Cruel, inhuman and degrading' situation in South Africa

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Refers to a study by the Black Sash which showed that over a 20-year period, at least three million blacks had been forcibly relocated and another one million were still to be removed.
Date(s): March 1983. Accessed 13 December 2007

1959 Johannesburg Conference

[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Description: Includes minutes, addendum to declaration of human rights, interim agenda, personal message from Petersen, programme of events, chairman's report for 1958/9, treasurer's report, discussion on annual report, suggested questions for use at Labour Burea [. . .]
Date(s): 1959

30 years of the Freedom Charter

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Book. Donated 1998
Date(s): 1986

A brutal harvest: The roots and legitimation of violence on farms in South Africa

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Pamphlet. Donated 1998. Report from the Project for the Study of Violence.
Date(s): 1991

A tale of two paradoxes: Media censorship in South Africa, pre-liberation and post-apartheid

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Black Sash as one of the organisations who documented infringements on human rights.
Date(s): January 2001. Accessed 15 March 2007

Albany Black Sash monthly programme

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Cory has: October 1990, December 1990, May 1992-November 1994, February 1995 to April 1995 (with gaps)
Date(s): 1990-1995

Alleviation of poverty 1969-2004

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Titles include: "Breaking the poverty trap", 2004, "Start small reap big", 2003 (CD), "Declaration on social progress and development", United Nations, 1969, "Framework agreement on growth and development in the Western Cape", 2003
Date(s): 1969-2004

Amnesty International Records

[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Includes correspondence, 1991, Statement, 1991; Newsletter, 1987, 1991; Note, 1998
Date(s): 1987-1998

Amnesty International report

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Annual. Cory has: 1992-1996. Latest Issue received 1996. Donated 1998
Date(s): 1992-1996

Apartheid - How much longer? A report about the journey of an ISHR delegation to South Africa

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: Book. Donated 1998. Black Sash is one of the subjects in the book.
Date(s): 1986

Area repression report

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: Cory has: 1/90, July 1990 to 12/92, December 1992, ceased (full set). Donated 1998
Date(s): 1990-1992

Article by Mary Burton on threats to human rights during South Africa's transition and comments about the article

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance.
Date(s): January 1994

Black Sash banner: "Human Rights Now"

[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: White paint on red cotton cloth. With Women's Movement logo. Presented by the Black Sash in August 1995

Black Sash play

[Community Video Education Trust (CVET) Collection] Description: Video Cassette. The play is a take-off on the history of the Black Sash. In covers the plight of black women during the heyday of Apartheid, passes, Group Areas Act, influx control. The evening when it was performed also included poetry reading, trad [. . .]
Date(s): 1988?

Black Sash: Women for human rights

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Leaflet (fold.)
Date(s): 1994

Bophuthatswana

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes a paper 'The Reincorporation of Bophuthatswana' by Paul Daphne, 1992; records of protest action against human rights violations and information on the arrest of Black Sash members after a demonstration in 1991.
Date(s): 1990s

Brochure entitled "The Black Sash - Women for human rights"

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: With information on the Black Sash Programme for 1996
Date(s): 1996

Bulletins

[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Includes : "Report on monitoring of Inkatha meeting held at Madlakobvu Higher Primary School, Methodist Mission are, Ndedwe, Sunday 26 August 1990"
Date(s): 1989-1991

Calendar 1993: "Open the doors we're coming through..."

[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Calendar of black and white photographs depicting mainly women. Include quotation on each page describing the struggles of women. The last page of the calendar contains a page entitled "The Rights of South African Women".
Date(s): 1993

Cape Western Region Reports

[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Description: Includes memoranda re Publications and Entertainment Bill, Cape Western Regional Reports 1965-1969, 1971-1974 Workmen's Compensation, September 1967 Human Rights Day, democracy, Parliament 1974, bannings, influx control, "Communication and persuasion [. . .]
Date(s): 1963-1974

Case files : some problems handled by the East London Advice Office during the year 1989

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Case numbers 490/89, 617/89 and 625/89. Filed by case number with an alphabetical name index in folder 1
Date(s): 1989

Case files of problems handled by the East London Advice Office for the period 1996

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed by case number with index in folder 1. Missing : cases 662-725; 727-1000
Date(s): 1996

Case files of problems handled by the East London Advice Office in 1996

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed by case number with an alphabetical index in folder 1. Missing cases : 665-900; 1000-1024; 1026-1406; 1408-1499; 2001-2365; 2367-2409
Date(s): 1996

Case files of problems handled by the Grahamstown Advice Office for the period 1998

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Filed in case file order with index in folder 1
Date(s): 1998

Case files of problems handled by the Port Elizabeth Advice Office for the period 1994

[Black Sash (Cape Eastern Region) Archive] Description: Filed in alphabetical order with index in folder 1
Date(s): 1994

Case files: Problems handled by the East London Advice Office during 1993

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed in numerical order by case number.
Date(s): 1993

Case files: problems handled by the East London Advice Office during the year 1992

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed by case number with an alphabetical name index in folder 1
Date(s): 1992

Case files: problems handled by the East London Advice Office during the year 1994

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed by case number with an alphabetical name index in folder 1. Including files 1-699, 719, 997-1399, 1404-1406, 1500-2253, 2260-2499, 2700-2814, 2828-2833
Date(s): 1994

Case files: problems handled by the East London Advice Office during the year 2000

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed in case order with an alphabetical name index in folder 1
Date(s): 2000

Case records of problems handled by the East London Advice Office

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed by file number with alphabetical index to clients name. Index in folder 1
Date(s): 1987

Case records of problems handled by the East London Advice Office

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed alphabetically by file number with alphabetical index to clients' names
Date(s): January-December 1988

Case records of problems handled by the East London Advice Office

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed in numerical order by case number.
Date(s): 1994

Case records of problems handled by the East London Advice Office during 1990

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Case nos.1299/90 - 2776/90, filed in numerical order by case number
Date(s): 1990

Case records of problems handled by the East London Advice Office for 1991

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Case numbers 208/91, 215/91, 861/91, 1518/91, 2013/91, 2333/91 and 2450/91. Filed by case number with an alphabetical name index in folder 1
Date(s): 1991

Case records of problems handled by the East London Advice Office for the period January-December 1992

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Case files 1/92-2154/92, filed in numerical order by file number
Date(s): 1992

Case records of problems handled by the East London Advice Office, 1990

[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Case numbers 2034/90, 2159/90 and 2478/90. Filed by case number with an alphabetical name index in folder 1
Date(s): 1990

Case records of problems handled by the Grahamstown Advice Office

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Filed alphabetically by name of the client
Date(s): 1988

Case records of problems handled by the Grahamstown Advice Office

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Filed by case number
Date(s): January-December 1990

Case records of problems handled by the Grahamstown Advice Office

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Includes numbers 92/1-92/678, filed by case number
Date(s): January-December 1992

Case records of problems handled by the Grahamstown Advice Office for the period January-December 1994.

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Filed in numerical order by case number. Index in folder 1
Date(s): January-December 1994

Case records of problems handled by the Port Elizabeth Advice Office

[Black Sash (Cape Eastern Region) Archive] Description: Filed alphabetically by name of the client
Date(s): c.1983-1987

Case records of problems handled by the Port Elizabeth Advice Office

[Black Sash (Cape Eastern Region) Archive] Description: Filed alphabetically by name of the client
Date(s): c.1986-1988

Case records of problems handled by the Port Elizabeth Advice Office

[Black Sash (Cape Eastern Region) Archive] Description: Filed alphabetically by name of the client
Date(s): c.1988-1992

Case records of problems handled by the Port Elizabeth Advice Office

[Black Sash (Cape Eastern Region) Archive] Description: Filed alphabetically by the name of the client
Date(s): c.1989-1992

Case records of problems handled by the Port Elizabeth Advice Office for the period 1994-1995

[Black Sash (Cape Eastern Region) Archive] Description: Filed in alphabetical order with index in folder 1.
Date(s): 1994-1995

Centre for Human Rights, UN office at Geneva, to Yasmin Sooka, Panel of Religious Leaders (Cape Town)

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Re: Proposed visit in August 1994 to South Africa by the Ad Hoc working group pf experts on southern Africa, and message from Sheen Duncan to Mary Burton about this.
Date(s): 1994

Ciskei/Sheena Duncan

[Julie Frederikse Collection] Description: Lawyers for Human Rights meeting in Johannesburg on Ciskei independence and interview with Sheena Duncan on loss of South African citizenship rights to Ciskeians
Date(s): 26 November 1981

Civil Rights 1994

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Documents that relate to the Constitution. Includes: Affirmative Action Act, civil society, discrimination, harassment
Date(s): 1994

Conference Records (Pietermaritzburg, April 1993)

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes: Agenda, Presidential Address (Jenny de Tolly), Vision Statement, Minutes, Resolutions and Statements, possible job description for Sash lobbyist, constitution (as amended) reports (Headquarters, Magazine Committee, Treasurer's, Report of th [. . .]
Date(s): April 1993

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1987 and 1988

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: 1987 Conference papers include: Papers: "Lwaaikamp: Another Forced Removal", "Homeless in and around the Witwatersrand", "Operation Oliekol: Removals and Orderly Urbanisation in the PE/Uitenhage areas" by Rosalie Kingwill of Eastern Cape Region, "Wor [. . .]
Date(s): 1987 and 1988

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1990

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Conference records for 1990 include (some annotated): agenda, resolutions (Advice Office Trust, Cape Western, Pretoria Branch becomes the Northern Transvaal Region), regional reports (Southern Cape, Cape Western, Border), advice office and fieldworke [. . .]
Date(s): 1990

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1992

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Includes: Agenda; Index to papers and reports; presidential address by Sheena Duncan "Outside the walls"; Headquarter's Report; Treasurer's Report; Magazine Report; Advice Office Trust Report; Regional Reports (Albany, Cape Eastern, Natal Midlands, B [. . .]
Date(s): 1992

Conference Records for National Conferences: Resolutions from 1992 and 1993 Conference

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Also includes 1993 Black Sash Recommended Wages, "Outline of a possible job description for a Black Sash Lobbyist" by Sue van der Merwe and "Comments from the Black Sash on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Women's Bills
Date(s): 1992 and 1993

Contact with NGOs in Mozambique

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Includes report from Gille on visit to Mozambique (August 1994) and incomplete letter (December 1997) presumably from Mary Burton suggesting Black Sash assist Mozambican human rights groups
Date(s): 1994-1997

Current list of political trials

[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Annotated for November monitor, received 21 November 1989. Computer print-out
Date(s): 1989

Declaration of Rights of Africans in the Western Cape

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes call for support for a declaration of rights for Africans in the Western Cape
Date(s): 1983-1984

Development Action Group (DAG) to Black Sash

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Re petition from Ad Hoc Committee for the campaign on social and economic rights addressed to the Constitutional Assembly
Date(s): July 1995

Documents on children

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes: survey of some of the facilities available for pre-school children in Cape Town and environs, 1971; United Nations documents on the rights of children 1979; Black Sash memorandum on the suffering of children in South Africa, April 1986; inv [. . .]
Date(s): 1970s and 1980s

Dossiers of deaths in detention

[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Type script, roneoed.
Date(s): 15 September 1977

Economic, social and cultural rights 1995-1996

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes national and international discussion papers and sources
Date(s): 1995-1996

European Union Foundation for Human Rights, 1996- 1997 records

[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Includes: Guideline on applications to the European Union for Human Rights; Guide on project proposal to the European Union for Human Rights and notes
Date(s): 1996-1997

Fact Papers/Memoranda

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes ban on meetings of more than 10 Africans; Human rights, Non-European Unity Movement, proposal to form an organisation to see that justice is done, influencing the white electorate, Bantu Education, provision of informative literature; statem [. . .]
Date(s): October 1958

Flyers re meetings and advice services

[Beva Runciman Papers] Description: Also to recruit support for ECC and related human rights activities.
Date(s): c.1983-1989

Free the Children Alliance Records

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Press statements, booklet 'Children and detention'; declaration of the rights of the Child (UNO); press cuttings, list of committee members and lists of children arrested. 'Children: their courts and Institutions in South Africa', by Fiona McLachlan [. . .]
Date(s): 1986-1988

Getting away with murder: Political killings

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Book. Donated in 1998
Date(s): 1993

Grasping the prickly pear: The Bophuthatswana story

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Pamphlet. Donated 1998 and 2001
Date(s): 1990

Housing - Cape 1977-1980

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes memoranda, Petition by residents of Southern Protea to retain and develop their township, correspondence and documents re Crossroads and Mitchell's Plain
Date(s): 1977-1980

Housing rights: Some central themes

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Text of a paper by Scott Leckie delivered at Sustainable Habitat on an Urbanised Planet? conference, Berlin, March 1990. Donated 1998
Date(s): 1990

Human Rights

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Date(s): 1957-1958, 1987-1989, 1990s

Human Rights

[Jo MacRobert Papers] Date(s): 1983-1989

Human rights and repression in Southern Africa: The apartheid machine grinds on

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Donated 1998. Cover title: Human rights & repression in South Africa : the apartheid machine grinds on
Date(s): 1989

Human Rights and the Black Sash

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: Book. Donated in 1998
Date(s): 1995

Human Rights Commission (HRC) Records

[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Includes: agendas, minutes, notices, lists of HRC offices, financial statements
Date(s): 1989-1991

Human Rights Commission: Area Repression Report

[Black Sash Collection] Description: No 1 and 2, April 1992
Date(s): April 1992

Human Rights Commission: Checkmate for Apartheid?

[Black Sash Collection] Description: Special report on the years of destabilisation
Date(s): July 1990-June 1992

Human Rights Commission: Human Rights Update

[Black Sash Collection] Description: Vol. 5, No 1 and No. 2
Date(s): January and February 1992

Human Rights Commissions (HRC) 1994-1996

[Black Sash Advice Office Archive] Description: Includes monitors' reports of interviews, nominations and CVs for HRC and Public Protector positions
Date(s): 1994-1996

Human rights issues

[Noel Robb Papers] Description: Includes Human Rights Commission. See also D10 State of Emergency

Human Rights report

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: Cory has: Jan. 1993-Dec 1998, ceased as a monthly publication. Donated 1998. Human Rights report replaces both the Area Repression Report and Human Rights Update. Title changed from Monthly Repression Report to Monthly Report in February 1994. Title [. . .]
Date(s): January 1993-December 1998

Human Rights Review

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: Cory has: 1988-1996. Donated 1998. Organisation's name changed from Human Rights Commission to Human Rights Committee in April 1994. First issue unnumbered
Date(s): 1988-1996

Human rights update

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: Cory has: v.1 no.1 1988 to v. 5 no. 12 December, ceased. Donated in 1998
Date(s): 1988-1992

Human Rights Workshop

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Run by the Education Committee for Standard 9 and 10 school pupils
Date(s): 1989