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Blind SA, represented by the public interest organisation SECTION27, has launched a case in the high court of South Africa (Gauteng Division) against what it believes is the state’s failure to legislatively redress the outdated Copyright Act of 1978. The Act makes no provision for people with disabilities and their need to access works in accessible formats such as Braille. Respondents to the latest court challenge by Blind SA are the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Ebrahim Patel; the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor; the speaker of the Nati...

Challenge to the constitutionality of ‘outdated’ Copyright Act heads to court Linda Daniels © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved Blind SA, represented by the public interest organisation SECTION27, has launched a case in the high court of South Africa (Gauteng Division) against what it believes is the state’s failure to legislatively redress the outdated Copyright Act of 1978. The Act makes no provision for people with disabilities and their need to access works in accessible formats such as Braille. Respondents to the latest court challenge by Blind SA...

Ayesha has extensive experience researching gender and development, social policy and conflict/refugee issues Pakistan, where she has worked with the Collective for Social Science Research for almost twenty years. Her book The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy, was published in 2018. She has participated in IDS-led multi-country research programmes Action for Empowerment and Accountability, and Pathway of Women’s Empowerment. She is pursuing a PhD in Development Studies by Published Works – her portfolio of research is on the intersection between women’s acti...

Doctoral College Summary The proposed project takes as its starting point the paintings of English artists Rita Donagh and Ralph Lillford, both of whom made work directly related to Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. Crucially, Lillford had made regular visits to Belfast during this time, contrasting to Donagh’s relatively distanced approach, thus raising questions about the necessary proximity required for an artist to effectively and meaningfully respond to the events their work addresses. At this same time, artists based here were also responding directly to the political and socia...

Doctoral College Summary Ulster’s ready-made shirt making industry, located largely in the north west of Northern Ireland, was an important but little known industry. Its origins lie in the early 19th century, when local man William Scott established a shirt making enterprise in Derry in 1831. Having spotted a demand, among fashionable society, for cotton shirts with embroidered linen fronts, he expanded his making, via outstations, into manufacture and by 1850 was thought to have one of the highest wage bills in the city. His early success paved the way for others, who took an industrial a...