THIS IS MORE THAN A FESTIVAL—IT’S A MOVEMENT

GATES OPEN 10AM 21–22 MARCH | FREE ENTRY & SAFE PARKING

FREE ACCESS to the fes­ti­val 21st, 22nd and 23rd of March.

 

UAZA, along­side thou­sands of activists, artists, and every­day South Africans, will once again stand up for jus­tice, equal­i­ty, and inclu­sion.

Human rights belong to every­one, sim­ply because they are human. This idea is still rel­a­tive­ly new—only in 1948, after World War II, did the Unit­ed Nations adopt the Uni­ver­sal Dec­la­ra­tion of Human Rights, set­ting out 30 fun­da­men­tal rights based on dig­ni­ty, free­dom, jus­tice, and peace. These rights are uni­ver­sal, and no one should be denied them.

Both the Ukrain­ian and South African con­sti­tu­tions are found­ed on human rights. At a time when the very con­cept of basic rights is being severe­ly test­ed, our coun­tries can demon­strate even greater sol­i­dar­i­ty than ever before.

Join the Ukrain­ian Asso­ci­a­tion of South Africa at the Con­sti­tu­tion Hill Human Rights Fes­ti­val.

Let’s stand togeth­er against the vio­la­tions of human rights!

Crimes of russ­ian aggres­sion and war crimes:

- 156 878 reg­is­tered crimes of aggres­sion and war crimes com­mit­ted by Russ­ian occu­piers (as of 19 Feb­ru­ary 2025, data from the Office of the Pros­e­cu­tor Gen­er­al of Ukraine) https://war.ukraine.ua/russia-war-crimes/

- Since Feb­ru­ary 2023, Ukrain­ian Defence Forces have record­ed at least 6 129 cas­es of Rus­sia using ammu­ni­tion con­tain­ing haz­ardous chem­i­cals, includ­ing 434 cas­es in Decem­ber 2024 alone.

- More than 95% of Ukrain­ian POWs were tor­tured in Rus­sia (accord­ing to the UN) https://reliefweb.int/…/deafening-silence-ukrainians…

- Over 170 tor­ture cham­bers have been iden­ti­fied, and vir­tu­al­ly every­one who returned from Russ­ian cap­tiv­i­ty was sub­ject­ed to var­i­ous forms of vio­lence.

- More than 16 000 Ukrain­ian civil­ians remain impris­oned in Rus­sia https://www.hrw.org/…/new-campaign-focuses-russia…

Russ­ian crimes Against Chil­dren:

- At least 599 chil­dren have been killed by Rus­sia, and 1 762 more have been injured (as of 19 Feb­ru­ary 2025) https://hrmmu-3-year-update.my.canva.site/

- Ukraine has doc­u­ment­ed at least 19 546 cas­es of ille­gal depor­ta­tion or forced trans­fers of Ukrain­ian chil­dren by Rus­sia, though the actu­al num­ber is like­ly much high­er https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15395.doc.htm