ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa

The Socio-Economic Rights Project of the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape welcomes contributions to be published in the ESR Review.

Twenty-five years after its adoption of General Recommendation 19 on violence against women, the CEDAW Committee on 14 July 2017, adopted General Recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women.

Ikponwosa Ero (Nigeria) was designated in June 2015 by the UN Human Rights Council as the first UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism. Inspired by her experiences as a person with albinism, Ms. Ero has spent the last seven years fulfilling her mandate. As international advocacy and legal officer of Under the Same Sun, an NGO with a focus on albinism, she has participated in multiple activities and panels at the UN in Geneva and New York. She has extensive experience in research, policy development and advocacy in the field of albinism. She is the author of numerous papers and articles on the issue, including ones examining the categorisation of persons with albinism in the international human rights system.