Human Rights Festival- 24 March 2021: Human Rights and Civil Society: The State’s Abuse of power?

Greenpeace is a civil society organisation working towards the achievement of environmental rights and social and environmental justice in our communities across South Africa. This dialogue will unpack experiences and stories faced by activists and organisations in defense of our constitutional rights and will explore possible solutions to this emerging constitutional crisis. Civil society organisations have a constitutionally enshrined right to campaign. If state abuse is not addressed, space for civil society organisations to organise and to campaign will continue to shrink through unconstitutional means.