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SUMMARY:The Marikana Commission of Inquiry: Investigations and Accountabil
 ity for Right to Life Violations CGHR in conversation with the lead counse
 l for the Human Rights Commission\, Toby Fisher - Toby Fisher\, Barrister\
 , Lead Counsel South African Human Rights Commission - Marikana Commission
 \; Dr Thomas Probert Research Consultant\, UN Special Rapporteur on extraj
 udicial\, summary or arbitrary executions\; CGHR Research Asociate
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CONTACT:Sharath Srinivasan
DESCRIPTION:*CGHR in conversation with the lead counsel for the South Afri
 can Human Rights Commission\, Toby Fisher*\n\nThe events at the Lonmin pla
 tinum mine in Marikana\, South Africa\, in August 2012 made headlines arou
 nd the world\, and caused a significant challenge to the ANC Government in
  South Africa. Shortly after the fateful events in Rustenberg\, President 
 Jacob Zuma announced an inquiry headed by a former Supreme Court of Appeal
 s Judge\, tasked to "investigate matters of public\, national and internat
 ional concern arising out of the tragic incidents at the Lonmin Mine in Ma
 rikana."\n\nIn order to avoid inevitable overlap between the Commission of
  Inquiry and the South Africa Human Rights Commission’s own mandated inv
 estigation into the events\, the SAHRC elected to participate in the proce
 ss of the Commission of Inquiry. As the SAHRC’s lead counsel during the 
 proceedings of the Commission\, Toby Fisher is well placed to comment on t
 he strengths and weaknesses of the investigation\, its conclusions\, and i
 ts role in pursuing justice for the victims.\n\nCommissions of Inquiry hav
 e come to play a significant role in the response of several African State
 s to incidents involving violations of the right to life over the past dec
 ades. Some argue they present a forum in which victims can have a greater 
 voice and can more readily contribute to reconciliation or the rebuilding 
 of public trust.  Others argue they are smokescreens behind which perpetra
 tors evade meaningful accountability for their crimes.\n\nIn this conversa
 tion\, CGHR’s Thomas Probert will explore with Toby the extent to which 
 either of these assessments might fairly be attributed to the Marikana Com
 mission\, and together\, based on their ongoing work to revise the UN Manu
 al of the Investigation of Extra-Legal Executions\, both will reflect on t
 he characteristics of a successful accountability mechanism for violations
  of the right to life.\n\n*Speakers:*\n\n*Toby Fisher* is a London-based b
 arrister with an extensive experience of international human rights law li
 tigation. In addition to his role as lead counsel for the South African Hu
 man Rights Commission before the Marikana Commission of Inquiry he has wor
 ked on death penalty appeals in Sierra Leone\, and is currently acting as 
 a business and human rights consultant to the Centre for Applied Legal Stu
 dies in Johannesburg.\n\n*Thomas Probert* is a Research Associate at CGHR\
 , and works as a research consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on extra
 judicial\, summary or arbitrary executions\, based at the Office of the Hi
 gh Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. He is also a senior researcher
  within a team based at the University of Pretoria currently undertaking a
  comparative study of national Commissions of Inquiry in Africa.\n
LOCATION:Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Rd\, C
 B3 9DT
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