In Conversation: Recent Episodes
SA-EU Strategic Partnership Dialogue Facility
This podcast is part of the South Africa-EU Dialogue Facility’s digital activities. The podcast series, called IN CONVERSATION, aims to deepen the peer learning and sharing element of the various dialogues between South African and European Union stakeholders, sharing experiences on a technical level, but also in terms of good practices for preparing and implementing policy dialogues. In this podcast series we will take a look at some of the projects happening as a result of the partnership between South Africa and the European Union.
In this podcast we discuss a human rights initiative involving the exploration of mechanisms for better protection of women in the criminal justice system.
Currently, we know very little about the lives and the conditions of the detention of women who come into conflict with the law and are arrested, detained, incarcerated or institutionalised. But what we do know paints a picture of human rights violations from health and medical care to safety and lack of legal representation.
The project, in partnership with the South African Human Rights Commission and the Association for the Prevention of Torture, is funded by the European Union.Read Justice Edward Cameron's 2015 report on the Pollsmoor Correctional Service here.
In 2019, the South African and European Union Strategic Partnership, through the Dialogue Facility, funded a dialogue process aimed at improving South Africa’s policy and legislation to better protect and uphold the rights of Intersex and Transgender people. It involved an in-depth exchange between various government stakeholders, civil society organisations, technical experts as well as partners from countries such as Malta.
This podcast focuses on specific policy improvements that can enable the better protection of the human rights of the transgender and intersex community in South Africa.
In this three-part series, we speak to a number of the key role players involved to unpack the human rights issues at stake, the lived realities of transgender and intersex people, the multifaceted and highly complex layers in changing current policy and legislation and the way forward.
In this first episode, we shine spotlight on the Civil Society representatives advocating for equal rights for transgender and intersex people.
In this podcast we discuss the national and global biodiversity targets and a dialogue project which resulted in 44 district municipalities in SA engaging with their European counterparts on the role and contributions of local governments in achieving these targets. This exchange coincides with the process of developing the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which will set the global agenda for biodiversity and related climate action to 2030.
We speak to custodians of South Africa's Biodiversity efforts from the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment; ICLEI - local governments for sustainability; and European counterparts working towards achieving the global biodiversity targets in Europe.
Show notes:Resources:
- Visit www.citieswithnature.org and watch the video on Reshaping our Future on the home page.
- Acting for Nature: https://www.citieswithnature.org/act-fornature/
- The Value of Nature, an interactive poster: https://www.citieswithnature.org/what-is-citieswithnature/
This podcast series, called IN CONVERSATION, is produced by the South Africa-European Union Dialogue Facility and aims to deepen the peer learning and sharing element of the various dialogues between South African and European Union stakeholders. It's important for us to tell you a bit more about the Dialogue Facility, the various stakeholders and the relationship between the European Union and South Africa and why these IN conversation **podcasts are relevant.
In our very first podcast we chat to Harvey Short, the Chief Director at the Department of International Relations in South Africa and Dr Bernard Rey, the Head of the Development Cooperation, from the Delegation of the European Union to South Africa.**
Enjoy the first podcast from the SA-EU Strategic Partnership Dialogue Facility.