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Civic Rights

PRESS RELEASE: AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COURT ASKED TO RULE ON LEGALITY OF SADC TRIBUNAL’S SUSPENSION

Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) and Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COURT ASKED TO RULE ON LEGALITY OF SADC TRIBUNAL’S SUSPENSION Johannesburg, 26 November– In a landmark…

Staff Writer26 November 2012

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Tackling cervical cancer: Improving access to cervical cancer services in Southern Africa

This report seeks to address the barriers to accessing cervical cancer services through providing information on the nature of cervical cancer and identifying the current availability of services for cervical…

Staff Writer24 November 2012

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International criminal justice in 2012 – a year of highs, lows and raised eye brows

The eleventh session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute came to an end this week in The Hague. While we can only hope that participants…

Staff Writer23 November 2012

International Justice

African civil society write to the new ICC prosecutor

NGOs from across the African continent have written to the new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, raising key issues that they believe need to be addressed during…

Staff Writer22 November 2012

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Judgment on the Anglican church case in Zimbabwe – a reminder to evaluate our values and principles

Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, President Mugabe and Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba at their meeting on 10 October 2011 On 19 November 2012, the Zimbabwe Supreme Court…

Staff Writer21 November 2012

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Ensuring women’s equality critical to fighting HIV

One of SALC’s partners, Mamoletsi Moletsi, recently published an opinion piece in Lesotho’s Public Eyereflecting on the importance of ensuring women’s equality if we are to effectively respond to HIV. In the piece…

Staff Writer20 November 2012

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LESOTHO: ENSURING WOMEN’S EQUALITY

Last month, a High Court in Botswana struck down a customary law which denied women the right to inherit the family home. In the case, the Court found that such…

Staff Writer19 November 2012

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Cormsa V president of the Republic of South Africa & others: court diary

On 29th and 30th October, the North Gauteng High Court heard oral argument in the case brought by the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) and supported…

Staff Writer13 November 2012

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Cervical cancer: Women’s lives are worth saving

Thought Leader, Mail & Guardian Nyasha Munazvo-Chingore & Priti Patel 13 November 2012 Around the world a woman dies of cervical cancer every two minutes. This is even worse in…

Staff Writer13 November 2012

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The right to cervical cancer services in Southern Africa

The Lancet Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women in sub-Saharan Africa and is a leading cause of death in women in southern Africa. The disease is a…

Staff Writer12 November 2012