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STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE SADC-PF ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2024
10th December 2024
STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE SADC-PF ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2024
Dear Members, Parliamentarians and Partners,
It is with esteem and honour that I release this Statement on Human Rights Day 2024, a day that is cardinal to the Strategic initiatives of the SADC Parliamentary Forum.
The Forum associates itself with the theme espoused by the international community “Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now” which demonstrates the urgent need for action to implement and enforce human rights. Today, human rights are all often repressed with limitations of freedom and liberty which are not in accordance with human rights principles and practice. Moreover, most SADC Member States have a constitution which enshrines civil and political human rights, and despite their constitutional value, human rights are still being violated on a daily basis.