The United Nations Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur, Dr Dubravka Šimonović, visited South Africa in December 2015 and held a dialogue facilitated by NACOSA at the Nonceba Family Counselling Centre in Khayelitsha on 8 December 2015. Input, comment and discussion was provided by representatives from civil society organisations working in the field of gender based violence.
Decriminalisation of drugs
South Africa’s current drug policy framework is fragmented, with contradictions between legislation that criminalises personal drug use and policy commitments that recognise prevention, treatment, harm reductionand social reintegration as essential
