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Our World in Pictures: Week 17 of 2021

Our World in Pictures: Week 17 of 2021 [caption id= attachment 906830 align= aligncenter width= 1024 ] © Provided by Daily Maverick Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) greet each other before U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of congress in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)[/caption] [caption id= attachment 906831 align= aligncenter width= 1024 ] © Provided by Daily Maverick U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks with Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) after the speech by President Joe Biden to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the Capitol April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images)[/caption]

Bodies pile up as the hate crimes bill gathers dust in

By Sally Gandar• 27 April 2021 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - APRIL 26: protesters march to Parliament during the End Queer and Trans Hate Campaign on April 26, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. The march was in solidarity with the African LGBTQI+ victims and survivors of violence. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) Although the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill was introduced to Parliament in April 2018 and revived in October 2019, it has been ignored by MPs. The Department of Justice and Parliament must act now to pass the bill into law in order to protect some of the most vulnerable members of our society, such as the LGBTQI+ community.

Bodies pile up as the hate crimes bill gathers dust in Parliament

Bodies pile up as the hate crimes bill gathers dust in Parliament [caption id= attachment 902998 align= alignleft width= 1763 ] © Provided by Daily Maverick CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - APRIL 24: Anti-Gender Based Violence movement protest outside Parliament during a peaceful protest on April 24, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. Gender Based Violence remains a societal problem in South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach)[/caption] On 27 April 2021, South Africa celebrates Freedom Day, commemorating its first democratic elections held in 1994. Those elections marked a day of hope for South Africa – hope that we could, and would, do better when approaching “difference”, whether that difference was because of race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, or social origin, or any other so-called marker of difference that might have been perceived as something that divides us. 

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