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Botswana’s health bill worries regional rights body

Sunday Standard 24 March 2013 The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has punched holes in Botswana’s Public Health Bill, warning it might result in human rights violations. The SALC has raised…

Staff Writer3 April 2013

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SALC HOSTS SENSITISATION MEETING OF SADC MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ON CERVICAL CANCER

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…

Staff Writer26 March 2013

Criminal Justice Resources Zimbabwe

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