The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL) has requested the United Nations to issue an "Urgent Appeal" to the South African government requesting immediate precautionary measures to protect migrant workers who according to the league are facing discriminatory violence in South Africa. The submission was made to the Special Procedures Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas.  The league says the request establishes that discrimination based on nationality is unabated and continuing.  According to the league the Submission lays out how South Africa is violating its obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP) and requests that the country fulfil these obligations.Tsepiso Mkwetla spoke to General Coordinator of Kenyan Peasants League David Otieno….

The Kenyan Peasants League (KPL) has requested the United Nations to issue an "Urgent Appeal" to the South African government requesting immediate precautionary measures to protect migrant workers who according to the league are facing discriminatory violence in South Africa. The submission was made to the Special Procedures Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. &nbsp;The league says the request establishes that discrimination based on nationality is unabated and continuing. &nbsp;According to the league the Submission lays out how South Africa is violating its obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP) and requests that the country fulfil these obligations.Tsepiso Mkwetla spoke to General Coordinator of Kenyan Peasants League David Otieno&hellip;.

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The fight over South Africa's future energy mix is heading back to court next week. The Supreme Court of Appeal will hear a challenge by environmental and youth organisations against government's plans to procure one-thousand-five-hundred megawatts of new coal-fired power. The organisations say the decision failed to adequately consider the impact of coal pollution on health, the environment and children's constitutional rights. Our reporter Lebogang Mabange has more..

The fight over South Africa's future energy mix is heading back to court next week. The Supreme Court of Appeal will hear a challenge by environmental and youth organisations against government's plans to procure one-thousand-five-hundred megawatts of new coal-fired power. The organisations say the decision failed to adequately consider the impact of coal pollution on health, the environment and children's constitutional rights. Our reporter Lebogang Mabange has more..

SA coal power plans face court challenge over health, environmental and children’s rights concerns

A social anthropologist and research consultant specialising in migration, health, and human rights in Southern Africa, Dr Rebecca Walker, has warned that the recent mass repatriations and deportations in South Africa, has worsened the country's socioeconomic situation. The South African government has spent just over eighteen million U.S dollars on detaining and deporting undocumented foreign nationals during the June 30 anti- immigration protests in South Africa. Dr Walker says this money could have rather been directed at fixing systemic domestic challenges to curb poverty and the high unemployment rate. The South African government has formally asked Nigeria, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to reimburse part of the costs.Now to discuss this further we speak to Dr Rebecca Walker, Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and society at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

A social anthropologist and research consultant specialising in migration, health, and human rights in Southern Africa, Dr Rebecca Walker, has warned that the recent mass repatriations and deportations in South Africa, has worsened the country's socioeconomic situation. The South African government has spent just over eighteen million U.S dollars on detaining and deporting undocumented foreign nationals during the June 30 anti- immigration protests in South Africa. Dr Walker says this money could have rather been directed at fixing systemic domestic challenges to curb poverty and the high unemployment rate. The South African government has formally asked Nigeria, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to reimburse part of the costs.Now to discuss this further we speak to Dr Rebecca Walker, Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and society at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

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