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Op-Ed African Climate Alliance Op-Ed African Climate Alliance

Stilfontein miners have human rights like you, too, Minister Ntshavheni!

Stilfontein will and must be remembered as one of the worst tragedies we have witnessed in the thirty years we have had democracy in South Africa. It seems that who we consider human, how we understand criminality, and who gets the right to a fair trial – and who does not – is deeply tied to the systems that allow for the government’s complicity in extractive violence and disregard for human rights of those it deems disposable.

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Op-Ed African Climate Alliance Op-Ed African Climate Alliance

Equity in Every Drop: Access to Clean Water is a Fundamental Human Right

Access to safe and clean water is a basic human right and critical for individual survival and societies. Yet, in Africa, more than  25% of the population spends about six hours walking in order to get enough water for a day — sometimes unclean water — which causes serious health problems and reinforces cycles of poverty. 

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