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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

Civic Rights Zimbabwe

ZIMBABWE’S LATEST DRAFT CONSTITUTION – BETTER THAN EXPECTED BUT FAR FROM IDEAL

In September 2012, debates around the draft Zimbabwean Constitution reached a deadlock, with ZANU-PF publishing an alternative version to that put forward by COPAC in July 2012. Since then progress has been made and a…

Staff Writer29 January 2013

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SADC Tribunal paid the price for threatening States’ authority

The Business Day TANZANIAN president Jakaya Kikwete is said to have described it as a monster that will “devour us all”. Now the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal —…

Staff Writer28 January 2013

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How Zimbabwean’s land case ended up in South Africa’s legal system

The Business Day DISPOSSESSED Zimbabwean farmer Mike Campbell was able to take his case to the judiciary in South Africa because of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal decision,…

Staff Writer28 January 2013

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Heaalth bill victimises the HIV positive – Ndadi

Mmegi Director of BONELA, Uyapo Ndadi continues to express his frustration about the new Health Bill saying it is counter-productive and violates human rights. He said: “The Ministry of Health…

Staff Writer22 January 2013

International Justice

AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY UNITES: 140 AFRICAN NGOS WRITE TO AU CHAIRPERSON NKOSAZANA DLAMINI-ZUMA ON THE ISSUE OF IMPUNITY FOR INT’L CRIMES

The African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit gets underway next week in Ethiopia. Many will be eagerly watching to see how newly elected AU Chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, oversees proceedings…

Staff Writer18 January 2013