Promoting Popular Understanding of the Equality Act Project
South African Human Rights Commission
- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Special Initiatives
- Grant Amount $10,750
- Grant Period April 1, 2004–September 30, 2006
- Location Johannesburg, South Africa
- Geographic Focus South Africa
About this grant
The Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, passed by the South African Parliament in 2000, specifically indicates that legislation promoting equality and preventing unfair discrimination must be promulgated by the country’s first democratically elected parliament.This grant increase will assist the South African Human Rights Commission in co-hosting a colloquium on education and diversity to review the progress made in reversing the legacy of racially unequal education inherited from apartheid.