Annabel Raw

Health Rights Plain Language Publications Resources

Securing the Rights of People Living with HIV in the Workplace:

This is a booklet explaining the judgment in the case of X v Brink and Others from the Abuja Industrial Court concerning the rights of employees and duties of employers in relation to HIV testing and confidentiality of a person's HIV-status. You can download the booklet Booklet HERE. You can read…

Annabel Raw16 Jan 2020

Disability Rights Health Rights Uncategorized Zambia

World Mental Health Day 2019: A Focus on Zambia’s Mental Health Act

World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year. This year, the theme addresses the important and difficult issue of suicide prevention. Across the world, people are uniting to share information on the public health problem of suicide, on how to prevent it, to reduce stigma and to…

Annabel Raw10 Oct 2019

Health Rights Malawi Research Reports & Policy Briefs Resources

Linking Climate, Gender and HIV Justice: A Preliminary Report on Access to HIV Treatment and Care for People Living on Lake Chilwa Islands, Malawi

This is a preliminary report on barriers to access to HIV treatment and care experienced by communities living in and around the Lake Chilwa area in Malawi. A fact-finding mission was undertaken in August 2018 by the Coalition of Woman Living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi (COWLHA) and the Gender and…

Annabel Raw3 Jun 2019

Disability Rights Health Rights News Zambia

NEWS RELEASE: STATEMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH ZAMBIAN ACTIVISTS CALLING FOR AMENDMENT OF THE MENTAL HEALTH BILL

8 March 2019 Mental health law reform in Zambia is desperately overdue. The outdated Mental Disorders Act perpetuates discrimination, human rights violations, and abuses against persons with mental disabilities. It denies mental health care users the rights to live with dignity, make decisions about their care, and access community-based services.…

Annabel Raw8 Mar 2019

Disability Rights Focus countries Health Rights Malawi Ongoing cases

Malawi: Advancing human rights in mental health

SALC is working with the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) to support the case of an individual subjected to forced psychiatric treatment on the basis of a forensic detention order. The applicant argues that human rights and medical ethics, including the right to informed consent, must…

Annabel Raw17 Jan 2019

Health Rights Malawi Ongoing cases

Malawi: Seeking an effective and humane response to MDR-TB in prisons

Case Citation: Banda & Others v the Attorney General & Others (Constitutional Case No 120 of 2018), Zomba District Registry; Makwiza & Another v the Attorney General & Others (Civil Cause No 75 of 2019), Zomba District Registry SALC is working with the Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and…

Annabel Raw17 Jan 2019

Health Rights Malawi Ongoing cases

Malawi: Enforcing Prisoners’ Right to Adequate Nutrition

SALC is working with the Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) in Malawi to support a case brought by a prisoner, Mr James Gremu, and CHREAA on behalf of all inmates in which the persistent failure of the Malawi government to provide adequate nutrition in detention settings…

Annabel Raw17 Jan 2019

Articles and Opinions Criminal Justice Health Rights Malawi News

#WFD2018 Stop the Torture by Starvation in Malawi’s Prisons

By Victor Mhango and Annabel Raw On this World Food Day, the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) call for radical and urgent reform of the prison system to stop the systemic torture-by-starvation of Malawi’s prisoners. While all human beings…

Annabel Raw16 Oct 2018

Disability Rights Health Rights News Zambia

It’s World Mental Health Day: Why aren’t we reforming abusive and discriminatory laws?

By: Annabel Raw In Zambia, as in many countries in the southern Africa region, archaic, colonially-inherited laws are applied to oppress, isolate and abuse persons with psychosocial disabilities and mental health users. Reform is urgently needed. IMAGE: Mental Health Reform Stakeholder Meeting Participants in Lusaka, Zambia, May 2018 Internationally, 10…

Annabel Raw10 Oct 2018