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‘Defend rights of HIV+ people’

ZAMBIA AIDS Law Research and Advocacy Network (ZARAN) has called on the legal fraternity in Zambia to use their legal skills to defend the poor who have been adversely infected…

Staff Writer26 August 2010

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Botswana’s position is disappointing

By Nicole Fritz and Lloyd Kuveya Outside the international lawyer’s world, the European Court on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms generates little scintillating debate. And yet it is an institution…

Staff Writer17 August 2010

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Scant room to scoff at model’s stupidity

By Nicole Fritz AMONG those who do human rights work and who are inclined to sackcloth and ashes, model Naomi Campbell’s testimony at the Special Court for Sierra Leone caused…

Staff Writer17 August 2010

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Botswana defies African Commission ruling

Botswana Defies African Commission Ruling Statements by Botswana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs indicating that Botswana will not comply with a recent ruling by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’…

Staff Writer16 August 2010

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Botswana civil society and media take government to court

The media fraternity has roped in other civil society organisations in their looming court case to overturn the Media Practitioners Act. Represented by attorney Dick Bayford and advocate Steven Budlender…

Staff Writer14 August 2010

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Namibian High Court begin trial in coerced sterilization of HIV positive women case

The case of three HIV-positive women suing the Namibian government for coerced sterilisation was continued until 1 September 2010. The High Court in Windhoek began hearing the case of three…

Staff Writer31 July 2010

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NPA’S refusal to investigate alleged torture by Zimbabwean police officials

SALC, together with the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), is urging the High Court of Gauteng to review, declare unlawful and invalid, and set aside the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) refusal…

Staff Writer30 July 2010

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Malawi: Protecting the rights of same-sex couples

Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were arrested on 28 December 2009 and charged with violating sections 153 and 156 of Malawi’s Penal Code prohibiting carnal knowledge against the order of…

Staff Writer29 July 2010

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Rwanda summons SA ambassador over shooting probe

Kigali has summoned South Africa’s ambassador to voice concernover the probe into the shooting last month in Johannesburg of a Rwandan general, Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo told Agence France-Presse late…

Staff Writer7 July 2010

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General’s status as refugee called into question

Business Day AN INDICTMENT issued against a former Rwandan general who was shot in Johannesburg earlier this month, holding him accountable for murders that were part of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide,…

Staff Writer28 June 2010

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