India’s Waqfs are under pressure. The question is what brought them to a position where it could be done — and whether our own registration, governance and funding would stand the same test. [...]
News and Updates
SAMNET called on students and academics worldwide to write to Ontario Tech University. Islamophobic policy dressed as “security” is a dog whistle, and should be named as one. [...]
A UN report documents arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment by both sides in Khartoum State. Tens of thousands held without charge since April 2023 — and those are the verified cases. [...]
A Geneva Conventions conference mandated by the General Assembly was cancelled the night before it sat. Article 146’s obligation on every signatory does not depend on that conference. [...]
SAMNET called for submissions to the SAHRC’s Human Rights and Disinformation Summit. Breaking the cycle cannot be left to politicians, platforms or the wealthy. [...]
A fellowship in Amnesty’s Regional Human Rights Impact programme. The people who shape human rights work later are the ones in the pipeline now. [...]
How SAMNET got Palestinian flags into the 2010 World Cup by cutting the stars out of Jordanian ones — and why a child who sends a real email learns more than one who paints another poster. [...]
The brain develops into the mid-twenties, and alcohol does not behave there as it does in an adult. SAMNET calls for alcohol legislation to be treated as a national emergency. [...]
The Amendment Bill has been stuck in Parliament for a decade. SAMNET sets out what works, what the industry argues, and what the lockdown data actually showed. [...]
Two of the five non-fiction finalists at the 2024 SA Book Awards were Muslim women — Qaanitah Hunter and the late Fatima Sydow. [...]
Regular site audits and risk assessments — exits, escape plans, fire equipment, crowding, marshals, parking and first aid. A practical checklist for Musaajid, Madressah and events. [...]
Daily Maverick traced the claim that Gift of the Givers funds Hamas back to its source and interrogated it. A case study in character assassination — and in how journalism should be done. [...]