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Keeping Liberty Alive: Through Covid-19 and Beyond

14 May 2020 – This report highlights the risk of political rights and economic freedoms being eroded through measures adopted purportedly to deal with the ...

LGBTQ Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Perspectives of the region from the region

14 November - Despite recent positive developments, Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the more hostile regions for sexual minorities.

Lifting The Lockdown Now

30 April 2020 – This report makes the case on economic and humanitarian grounds for the immediate lifting of the lockdown, with key public-health conditions, ...

Online Risks and Harms: Citizens Under Surveillance

Contemporary societies are facing an unprecedented set of hazards. With more and more of their lives being conducted online, people’s lives are ever more ...

Rapid changes in SA media landscape | FreeFACTS - September 2024

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at the South African media landscape. It notes the decline in print media but also shows that the South African press and ...

Much is being made of the ANC’s efforts to thwart media freedom in South Africa. Few people have realised, however, that the party is similarly gunning for ...

1 October 2021 – This submission by the Institute of Race Relations to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services argues that the Prevention ...

2 August 2021 – The IRR’s submission on the Draft Firearms Control Amendment Bill argues that the draft legislation is poorly conceptualised and will not ...

30 June 2021 – The IRR’s submission to Parliament on the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Amendment Bill of 2021, arguing that it ...

29 October 2021 – In this submission to the Department of Social Development on the Draft Non-Profit Organisations Amendment Bill of 2021, the IRR outlines ...