Pleasure of the President

15th March 2010
In response to an appeal filed by SALC, the Malawi Parliament is considering a bill that would repea....
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Constitutionality of Botswana's Media Practitioner's Act

13th March 2010
An advocate supported by SALC is challenging the constitutionality of Botswana’s Media Practit....
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Women denied property rights

16th March 2010
Women and Law in Southern Africa-Malawi are litigating a constitutional challenge to Section 17 of t....
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HIV- positive women sue Namibian Government

10th March 2010
Oral arguments were heard in June, the case of three HIV-positive women suing the Namibian governmen....
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Zuma Continues to Sit on Army General's Report on Violence

18th March 2010
SALC is supporting a case requesting judicial review of a decision by the Office of the Presidency t....
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NPA's refusal to investigate alleged torture by Zimbabwean Police Officals

18th March 2010
SALC is urging the High Court of Gauteng to review, declare unlawful and invalid, and set aside the ....
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SALC in the News: Zuma Continues to Sit on Army General's Report on Violence

25th March 2010
In 2008 former South African President Thabo Mbeki commissioned a fact finding mission into state sponsored violence that took place in the run up to Zimbabwe's one man presidential run-off. Mbeki, as mediator, sent six retired South African army generals on two fact-finding missions to investigate the cause of the political crisis, especially the role of the army in the violence. Nearly two years since those generals reported back to Mbeki, their damning report has still not been made public.
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Malawi: Detained gay couple to face trial in Malawi

24th March 2010
The two men were arrested in December at their home in Blantyre, Malawi, for professing love and marriage in the traditional way. Police discovered the couple when local newspapers reported on their engagement ceremony, known as a chinkhoswe. Now, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga face up to 14 years in jail in a case that human rights activists say is a test case for gay rights, as well as one that could undermine efforts to curtail Malawi's devastating HIV infection rates.
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Zimbabwe: Zim cops seize pictures of repression

24th March 2010
Harare - Zimbabwe police on Tuesday seized all the photographs from an exhibition depicting repression under President Robert Mugabe, and arrested the chief of the human rights body that organized the show, officials confirmed.
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Malawi: Date Set in Trial of Malawi Gay Couple

23rd March 2010
When 26-year-old Steven Monjeza and 20-year-old Tiwonge Chimbalanga celebrated an engagement ceremony in the African nation Malawi, it was symbolic of their love. But the legal ramifications that followed have been too severe, say critics of the way that the men were arrested under the country’s decency laws and kept confined for months in a maximum-security prison.
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Fact Sheet for the Review Conference of the Rome Statute

23rd March 2010
The review conference is a meeting of the States Parties to the Rome Statute (the treaty establishing the ICC). The main purpose is to consider amendments to the Rome Statute.
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Malawi: Malawi gay couple face full trial

22nd March 2010
A lawyer said the couple would now call defence witnesses. Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, and Steven Monjeza, 26, deny charges of gross indecency.
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SALC Briefing: Malawi’s Targeting of its LBGT Populations

19th March 2010
On 28 December 2009, police officers arrested Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, at their home charging them under sections 153 and 156 of the Penal Code for Malawi for carnal knowledge against the order of nature and gross indecency between males.
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AIDS Fight Targets Laws Against Homosexuality, UN’s Sidibe Says

16th March 2010
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- The battle against AIDS will include a push to overturn laws that criminalize homosexuality in 85 nations, said the head of the coalition of United Nations agencies formed to fight the disease.
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South Africa: Traditional Bill ‘will hurt rural women more’

18th March 2010
HUMAN Rights Commissioner Pregs Govender this week sounded a warning to Parliament against enacting the Traditional Courts Bill, which she said would further prejudice rural women.
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Tutu hits discrimination of gays as human rights violation

12th March 2010
Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity — or because of their sexual orientation. Nor should anyone be excluded from health care on any of these grounds.
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Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, courthouse filming lands journalist in jail

1st March 2010
New York, March 1, 2010—A Zimbabwean freelance journalist was arrested today for the third time this year—this time for taking footage of prisoners outside a courthouse in the capital, Harare, according to local journalists.
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