ZIMBABWE: A WAY FORWARD

4th November 2009
ZIMBABWE: A WAY FORWARD
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Zimbabwe: Press Release (OSISA)

4th November 2009
NEWS RELEASE FROM THE OPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA (OSISA) Johannesburg, 04 November 2009: If the Southern African Development Community (SADC) does not act urgently to halt increasing militarisation in Zimbabwe and secure effective implementation of the Global Political Agreement, there is a serious risk that Zimbabwe will slide back to the crisis levels of 2008, devolve into further widespread violence and that real gains – in health and education – will be lost.
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Zimbabwe: Zim committed to unity: SADC

5th November 2009
Maputo - Zimbabwe's rival leaders remain committed to the nation's power-sharing deal, despite a deadlock that has paralysed the unity government, a regional official said on Wednesday ahead of a summit on the crisis.
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Zimbabwe: Human rights and media lawyer arrested

2nd November 2009
Mordecai Mahlangu, a prominent human rights and media lawyer was on 02 November 2009 arrested for allegedly writing a letter to Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana.
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ICC: Sudan's Bashir to visit Turkey despite warrant

4th November 2009
KHARTOUM, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will visit Turkey next week for the first time since an international court asked for his arrest, government sources said, in a test of Ankara's support for international justice.
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South Africa: Rights group urges AU to bolster the ICC

2nd November 2009
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- African Union members should push to bolster the authority of the International Criminal Court, human rights advocates said Monday in South Africa.
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DRC: War crimes trial to start

6th November 2009
The Hague - The war crimes trial of former Democratic Republic of Congo vice president and ex-rebel Jean-Pierre Bemba will start on April 27, the International Criminal Court said Thursday.
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"Zimbabwe could slide into a Civil War" - Leading think-tank warns SADC

7th November 2009
JOHANNESBURG - A leading Regional think-tank has warned SADC leaders of the impact of their failure to find lasting solution to the Zimbabwean crisis at the Maputo Summit on Thursday. In a statement released to the media Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), warned the Southern African Development Community (SADC) that if it does not act urgently to halt increasing militarisation in Zimbabwe and secure effective implementation of the GPA, there is a serious risk that Zimbabwe will slide back to the crisis levels of 2008, devolve into further widespread violence and that real gains – in health and education – will be lost.
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Zimbabwe: Child rape epidemic in Zimbabwe

9th November 2009
Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused in Zimbabwe in a growing epidemic that has shocked human rights activists. A single clinic in the capital, Harare, says it has treated nearly 30,000 girls and boys who were abused in the past four years ‑ an average of 20 per day. Experts believe that the country's economic collapse under Robert Mugabe has led to widespread family breakdown and left many children vulnerable.
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ICC: Al-Bashir cancels Turkey trip as OIC summit opens

10th November 2009
PRESIDENT Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), has pulled out of an Islamic summit in Istanbul after the Turkish government had previously welcomed his attendance and said that he would not be arrested. He was to attend the summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) which began yesterday.
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ICC: UN General Assembly endorses Goldstone report

12th November 2009
On Thursday, November 5th, Member States at the United Nations adopted a resolution supporting the main recommendations of the Goldstone report. The report, which had already been approved by the UN Human Rights Council last October, raises accusations of war crimes committed in Gaza during the Israeli assault last winter.
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South Africa: Access to law 'not just for rich'

12th November 2009
Cape Town - The law should do more for victims, the poor and the ignorant, President Jacob Zuma said in Cape Town on Wednesday.
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Zimbabwe: African NGOs adopt resolutions on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe

12th November 2009
The Forum for the participation of NGO’s at the 46th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) on 9 November 2009 agreed to adopt a resolution on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe as a whole.
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ZAMBIA: Media Face Beatings and Attacks

11th November 2009
LUSAKA - When journalists were beaten by political supporters for covering the president’s return trip from abroad, and cabinet ministers and police officers looked on without stopping it, it seemed to be the last straw in the victimisation of the media. But it was not.
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SALC in News: Namibia Women Face Forced Sterilization

12th November 2009
Ten years ago, Susan* was admitted to a public hospital in Namibia for an emergency surgery. She was 20 years old and was unaware that she was pregnant. When she woke up from surgery, she was told by a nurse that they had "taken her womb because [she] had HIV." She has no children and now it is unlikely she ever will.
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Namibia: Namibian Government Implicated in Involuntary Sterilizations of HIV-Positive Women

18th November 2009
As far back as 2001, women living with HIV/AIDS were being sterilized in Namibian hospitals, without their autonomous consent. Shockingly, these women, whose cases the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS began documenting in 2008, continue to wait for redress.
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South Africa: NUMSA condemns xenophobic attacks

20th November 2009
JOHANNESBURG – The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), on Thursday condemned the re-eruption of xenophobic attacks in Cape Town, which have displaced an estimated 2 500 predominantly Zimbabwean foreign nationals.
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SALC Vacancies: International Justice Lawyer

24th November 2009
International Justice Lawyer
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SALC Vacancies: Right to Information Fellow

24th November 2009
Right to Information Fellow
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South Africa: New HIV recommendations to improve health, reduce infections and save lives

30th November 2009
30 November 2009 -- On the eve of World AIDS Day, WHO is releasing new recommendations on treatment, prevention and infant feeding in the context of HIV, based on the latest scientific evidence.
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