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12 Jun 2012
 
 
Strengthening Legislation for a South African Anti-Corruption Agency
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
South Africa is one step closer to having an independent agency that should be able to investigate and act against high-level corruption. On 17 May the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Police,...
 
 
19 Mar 2012
 
Human Security vs Scientific Freedom: How Bird Flu has Provoked an Overdue Debate
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Much coverage in the mainstream and scientific press in the developed world has focused on the dispute over whether or not to publish the studies as some fear they could provide recipes for...
 
 
07 Feb 2012
 
The South African Constitutional Court Extends Police Accountability
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Should the police be more trustworthy than any other citizen? And if they are not, can you hold the Minister of Police to account? In an important unanimous judgement penned by South African Chief...
 
 
12 Dec 2011
 
Counting the Cost of Implementing South Africa’s Migration Policy
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Last Wednesday Isaac* woke up in his rented room in Kwanokuthula and prepared for his day. He washed, dressed and collected together his crafting tools and materials for making wire ornaments. He...
 
 
08 Sep 2011
 
ISS response to SAPS annual statistics release
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
"Crime in South Africa keeps going down, for which the police and many communities deserve some credit. But what the statistics don't reveal is the grim reality of many serious and often hidden...
 
 
17 May 2011
 
Of Patriotism, Prisoners and the Protector
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
On 4 May 2011 Judge Deon van Zyl, the South African Inspecting Judge for Correctional Services, took the stand in the high profile case of Shrien Diwani. The case, being heard in Belmarsh, United...
 
 
10 Mar 2011
 
Why Apartheid Planning Continues to Undermine Efforts at Crime Reduction
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
There are no shortage of theories, hypotheses and even unfounded beliefs about what drives crime and what is the best approach to solving the problem. Approaches to the problem fall into two broad...
 
 
11 Nov 2010
 
Ugandan Newspapers Guilty of Reinforcing Homophobia
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
In his 1998 book about the Rwandan genocide, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, Philip Gourevitch wrote eloquently about the power of the media to incite...
 
 
07 Sep 2010
 
Public Private Partnerships for Prisons: Another Crossroad?
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
The decision to substantially outsource any core activity of the state to the private sector, particularly criminal justice system functions, is not uncontroversial, nor is it a matter to be taken...
 
 
25 May 2010
 
Researchers dismiss World Cup trafficking fears
SECURITY
Sex work researchers have dismissed fears of a massive rise in human trafficking for the World Cup, saying that cash-strapped nongovernmental organisation (NGOs) could be tagging onto the...
 
 
19 May 2010
 
Human Trafficking and the World Cup: How big is the threat?
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
"Human trafficking and enslavement is a growing problem, with the poor being particularly vulnerable. Awareness is one of the tools to fight it," wrote Rudo Mungoshi on the City of Johannesburg...
 
 
23 Mar 2010
 
The Need for Evidence to Assess Concerns About Human Trafficking During the 2010 World Cup
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Several anti-trafficking campaigns have been initiated in South Africa ahead of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. These campaigns intend to prevent individuals from being trafficked by raising awareness...
 
 
20 Jan 2010
 
The Problem of Presidential Pardon
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
To pardon or not to pardon? And then who to pardon? These questions have occupied acres of column space, bloggers too numerous to tally and South Africans of all persuasions over the past few...
 
 
16 Sep 2009
 
Challenges to the Rule of Law in South Africa
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Since May 2008 South Africans have watched an unseemly and often confusing legal wrangle between what appear to be sectional interests in the legal profession. Initially the matter centered on...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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