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Malawi sex workers win forced HIV test case

The Nation The High Court in Blantyre yesterday ruled in favour of 11 sex workers who were subjected to a mandatory HIV test in Malawi’s southern district of Mwanza in…

Staff Writer21 May 2015

Criminal Justice Criminal Law Reform Criminal Justice Resources Equality Rights Health Equality Rights Resources Malawi

Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional

By Anneke Meerkotter, Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and Ian Southey-Swartz, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) In 2009, a group of women, presumed to be sex workers, was arrested as…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

Equality Rights Equality Rights Completed Cases Equality Rights Health Equality Rights Health Completed Cases Malawi

Malawi: Mandatory HIV testing of women

On 10 March 2011, eleven women from Mwanza, Malawi, filed an application in the Blantyre High Court challenging their subjection to mandatory HIV tests, the admission of the HIV test…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

Equality Rights Health Malawi

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT DECLARES MANDATORY HIV TESTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT SAYS MANDATORY HIV TESTING VIOLATES CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Blantyre, 20 May 2015 – Today, Justice Dorothy nyaKaunda Kamanga, handed down judgment in the Blantyre High Court in…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

Civic Rights Association & Assembly Civic Rights Expression Civic Rights Resources Eswatini

Swazi lawyer in solitary confinement

IOL Manzini – Thulani Maseko, the Swazi human rights lawyer in prison for two years for criticising King Mswati’s judicial system, is entering his second week of a three-week isolation…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

Criminal Justice Resources Equality Rights Health Malawi

Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case

20 May 2015 Malawi High Court judge Justice nyaKaunda Kamanga on Wednesday ruled that the police and the medical personnel violated the rights of 11 Mwanza women by subjecting them…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

International Justice

NEWS RELEASE: FAMILY SEEKS JUSTICE FOR FREEDOM FIGHTER 32 YEARS AFTER HER TORTURE AND DISAPPEARANCE BY THE SECURITY POLICE

Johannesburg, 20 May– Thembi Nkadimeng, the sister of disappeared anti-apartheid activist, Nokuthula Simelane, today filed an application before the Pretoria High Court compelling the National Director of Public Prosecutions and…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

Civic Rights Association & Assembly Civic Rights Expression

NEWS RELEASE: CONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ARAO BULA TEMPO AND CONTINUED PRE-TRIAL DETENTION OF JOSE MARCOS MAVUNGO

On 13 May 2015, human rights defender Mr Arão Bula Tempo was conditionally released pending trial after two months of imprisonment solely for his involvement in the organisation of a…

Staff Writer18 May 2015

Civic Rights Equality Rights Health Zambia

NEWS RELEASE: ZAMBIA HIGH COURT CONFIRMS ACQUITTAL OF HIV ACTIVIST, PAUL KASONKOMONA

Lusaka, 15 May 2015 – Today, Justice Judy Mulongoti confirmed the 2014 ruling of His Worship Lameck Ng’ambi in which he acquitted human rights activist, Paul Kasonkomona. In April 2013, Kasonkomona was arrested after…

Staff Writer15 May 2015

Civic Rights Association & Assembly Civic Rights Expression

MEDIA ADVISORY: JUDGMENT EXPECTED IN LUSAKA HIGH COURT ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Judgment Expected in Lusaka High Court on Freedom of Expression Lusaka—On Friday 15 May, the High Court in Lusaka is expected to deliver judgment in an important case relating to…

Staff Writer15 May 2015

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Malawi sex workers win forced HIV test case

Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional

Malawi: Mandatory HIV testing of women

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT DECLARES MANDATORY HIV TESTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Swazi lawyer in solitary confinement

Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case

NEWS RELEASE: FAMILY SEEKS JUSTICE FOR FREEDOM FIGHTER 32 YEARS AFTER HER TORTURE AND DISAPPEARANCE BY THE SECURITY POLICE

NEWS RELEASE: CONDITIONAL RELEASE OF ARAO BULA TEMPO AND CONTINUED PRE-TRIAL DETENTION OF JOSE MARCOS MAVUNGO

NEWS RELEASE: ZAMBIA HIGH COURT CONFIRMS ACQUITTAL OF HIV ACTIVIST, PAUL KASONKOMONA

MEDIA ADVISORY: JUDGMENT EXPECTED IN LUSAKA HIGH COURT ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

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