Guest: Chris Nissen, Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission]

 The South African Human Rights Commission is a Chapter 9 institution tasked with dealing with cases known as human rights violations. A human rights violation is when any of your rights in the Bill of Rights are abused or violated, but they do not handle all violations because there are already a number of organisations and structures in place to deal with specific types of human rights violations, free

of charge.

 

They focus more on issues of discrimination on any of the grounds set out in the Right to Equality, matters relating to socio-economic rights; and matters where your right to human dignity is violated.