Through the variety of legal cases and jurisdictions in which SALC has worked, SALC has developed expertise regarding women’s rights as well as comparative constitutional law and international and regional…
Johannesburg—The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) today joined the fight to repeal parts of Lesotho’s discriminatory Chieftainship Act, which only allows the first-born son to succeed to chieftainship, by filing…
Drawing on the outcomes of the Conference, “Closing the Impunity Gap: Southern Africa’s Role in Securing Justice for the 1994 Rwandan Genocide”, organised by SALC, REDRESS and African Rights, this…
November 28, 2011 Foreign Ministers African States Parties to the International Criminal Court Dear Foreign Minister, From 12–21 December 2011, your government will join the 119 International Criminal Court (ICC) states…
Two years after 14 commercial sex workers in Mwanza were arrested by police and forced to undergo an HIV test, the issue has now taken a dramatic turn with the…
The Business Day CIVIL society groups yesterday warned that the new version of the Protection of State Information Bill makes access to information more difficult than ever before. The PAIA…
BNL Times Malawi is unlikely to be the last country to snub warrants of arrest from the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the body is tangled in conflicting laws. Worse…
The Business Day EQUATORIAL Guinea’s controversial head of state Teodoro Obiang Nguema will receive a red carpet reception in Pretoria tomorrow as alarm over SA’s foreign policy decisions grows. The…
The Mail&Guardian Anti-government protest is gathering pace in Swaziland, with lawyers now taking to the street alongside labour unions, teachers, taxi drivers and banned political parties. The kingdom’s lawyers marched…
MBABANE – International lawyers’ associations have reacted with alarm to the sacking of High Court Judge, Justice Thomas Masuku. Swazi Times The formations say this action speaks of clear contempt…