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Beatrice Mtetwa versus the Zimbabwean police

You know this has to be done, somebody has to do it, and why shouldn’t it be you?” That is Zimbabwe’s most prominent human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa’s matter-of-fact explanation…

Staff Writer19 March 2013

Civic Rights Resources Zimbabwe

ZIMBABWE VOTES FOR NEW CONSTITUTION

On 16 March 2013, Zimbabwe held a referendum on whether to accept the draft COPAC Constitution. Initial reports suggest that an overwhelming majority of the approximately two million voters who…

Staff Writer18 March 2013

International Justice Zimbabwe

ZIMBABWEAN CASES IN SOUTH AFRICA’S COURT ROOMS

In a recent opinion piece – South African Courts’ Zimbabwean Problem – that appeared in the Daily Maverick, I looked at a number of Zimbabwe related cases that have been or…

Staff Writer18 March 2013

International Justice Resources

A helping hand: Southern Africa and extraordinary renditions

A recent report by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) reveals that more than a quarter of the world’s states provided support to the United States’ secret detention and rendition programmes, adopted in the wake…

Staff Writer11 March 2013

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Not so much a surprise that the SADC tribunal was disbanded but that it was formed at all

On Friday, 1 March, Judge Ariranga Pillay, former Judge President of the SADC Tribunal, Professor Laurie Nathan of the Centre for Mediation in Africa at the University of Pretoria and…

Staff Writer11 March 2013

Equality Rights Health

CALL TO END ABUSES IN HEALTH CARE RINGS LOUDER

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…

Staff Writer4 March 2013

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Ghost of the SADC tribunal haunts Zimbabwe in South Africa’s Constitutional Court

A group of Zimbabwean farmers dispossessed of their land in Zimbabwe’s controversial land redistribution policy will face off against the Zimbabwean government in the South African Constitutional Court today. This…

Staff Writer28 February 2013

Botswana Equality Rights Health Resources

CALL FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE ON BOTSWANA PUBLIC HEALTH BILL

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…

Staff Writer27 February 2013

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South Africa must come clean on extra-legal renditions

The Business Day By Nicole Fritz THE Oscar-nominated film, Zero Dark Thirty, depicting the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) hunt for Osama bin Laden, has generated fierce controversy for suggesting that…

Staff Writer27 February 2013

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Zimbabwe: Police attempt to raid peace project offices at night

SW Radio By Tichaona Sibanda On Monday night police in Harare tried to search the offices of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, six hours after they had earlier stormed the same…

Staff Writer12 February 2013