Cape Town – With Humans Rights Days being celebrated later this month, human rights organisation The Justice Desk is set to mark the occasion with a concert at the V&A Waterfront on March 20.
The event, Human Rights 365: Today and Every Day, aims to promote the message that human rights should be implemented, upheld and protected 365 days a year, and that every day is another opportunity for activists to bring about change.
Some of The Justice Desk’s ambassadors, including performing artists Craig Lucas and Mthandazo Gatya, will be at the event. There will also be activities, games, raffles and stalls selling merchandise.
Chief executive and founder of The Justice Desk, Jessica Dewhurst, said: “We are not only seeking to raise awareness and highlighting the importance of knowing your rights but also hope to bring people together, inspiring one another to recognise the incredible power that South Africans have when we come together for change.
“The Justice Desk aims to educate and empower the public to recognise that they can and should use their own voices, thoughts and platform to promote and ensure that the human rights of all people are protected and respected 365 days a year,” she said.
Dewhurst added that true change makers are the everyday people in our communities.
“We believe that our true change makers, who are the everyday people of our communities, have immense power to change this world. We see it in the work of the everyday person, mothers, fathers, teachers, friends, children, community leaders, youth, in you and in us. We are creating a community of everyday activists and human rights defenders to create change within their communities.
“We believe that when we come together our voices become united, louder and stronger than ever before. It is therefore important, now more than ever, for each and every person to know about their human rights, as well as how to defend them, so that we can create a better world for all,” she said.
South African singer Craig Lucas said he is honoured to be part of such an incredible organisation.
“In my opinion, participating in this event to raise awareness about human rights, as well as to come together with the public to celebrate, feels like the best way to make a difference. Through this event, we are raising money for The Justice Desks’s projects and facilitating real change within communities like the one I grew up in, so it is very important to me,” he said.
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