Calls for stronger parliamentary action against rising anti-rights forces |17 August 2026

SAfAIDS executive director Rouzeh Eghtessadi (Photo: Contributed)

Calls for stronger parliamentary action against rising anti-rights forces

The secretary general of the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF), Boemo Sekgoma, has called on Parliaments in Southern Africa to guard against laws, budgets and public policies that directly or inadvertently discriminate against sections of society.

She warned that anti-rights movements can use legal and political processes to roll back hard-won human rights.

Her call was reinforced by SAfAIDS executive director Rouzeh Eghtessadi, who urged African leaders and rights defenders to reclaim the continent’s indigenous philosophy of Ubuntu and resist attempts to invoke distorted notions of “family values” to justify discrimination and the exclusion of vulnerable and marginalised populations.

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