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An Exciting Week in Court for SALC: Freedom of Expression, the Right to Equality, Refugee Law and International Criminal Law
Posted on: 15 May, 2013
Author: Caroline James
SALC will be in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the South Gauteng High Court, the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court and the Lesotho High Court this week for cases that deal with freedom of expression, the right to equality and the interplay between refugee law and international criminal law. 14 May …» Read More
SALC HOSTS SENSITISATION MEETING OF SADC MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ON CERVICAL CANCER
Posted on: 26 March, 2013
Author: Nyasha Chingore
SADC Members of Parliament sitting on the SADC PF HIV Committee met in Johannesburg, South Africa on the 1st of March 2013 to discuss the availability of services and policies related to cervical cancer in the SADC region. The meeting was attended by members of parliament from the Kingdom of …» Read More
Call to end abuses in health care rings louder
Posted on: 4 March, 2013
Author: Nyasha Chingore
Health care settings are thought of as places of safety, where lives are saved and human rights are protected. The idea that torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment can occur in health care facilities is therefore understandably one which many still find far-fetched at best and hysterical or fictitious at …» Read More
Call for public participation and human rights discourse on Botswana Public Health Bill
Posted on: 27 February, 2013
Author: Anneke Meerkotter
On 22 February 2013, the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS; the AIDS and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa; the Southern Africa Litigation Centre and the HIV and AIDS Programme of the Open Society Institute of Southern Africa submitted a letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly of Botswana, …» Read More
ZAMBIA HIGH COURT HEARS CASE ON RIGHTS OF HIV-POSITIVE PRISONERS: UPDATE FROM THE COURTROOM
Posted on: 5 December, 2012
Author: Melody Kozah
On Monday, the Zambia High Court heard arguments in Mwanza and Another v Attorney General, a case challenging the poor prison conditions and the lack of adequate food provided to HIV-positive prisoners on treatment in the Lusaka Central Prison.You can read the case summary here. The case began with the …» Read More
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