{"id":139,"date":"2016-08-30T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/?p=139"},"modified":"2016-08-30T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T23:25:10","slug":"sadc-reverse-downward-slide-on-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/sadc-reverse-downward-slide-on-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"SADC: Reverse Downward Slide on Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Johannesburg) \u2013 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) should take concrete steps to improve respect for human rights among its 15 member countries. SADC heads of state will meet on August 30-31, 2016, in Mbabane, Swaziland, for SADC\u2019s 36<sup>th<\/sup> Summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical repression and disregard for basic rights characterized several SADC countries over the past year,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/about\/people\/dewa-mavhinga\">Dewa Mavhinga<\/a>, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. \u201cSADC governments need to ensure that they meet their human rights obligations and improve the quality of life for those who are most vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2016\/08\/30\/sadc-reverse-downward-slide-rights\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Johannesburg) \u2013 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) should take concrete steps to improve respect for human rights among its 15 member countries. SADC heads of state will meet on August 30-31, 2016, in Mbabane, Swaziland, for SADC\u2019s 36th Summit. \u201cPolitical repression and disregard for basic rights characterized several SADC countries over the past year,\u201d said Dewa Mavhinga, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. \u201cSADC governments need to ensure that they meet their human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}