The 8th of March is celebrated across the world as International Women’s Day. It is a time to reflect on the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination…
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This week, Zimbabwe’s Registrar General, Mr Mudede, was quoted in national papers urging the Government of Zimbabwe to ban contraceptives. This is the second time in the past two months that he has commented on the subject of contraception having reportedly made similar…
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On Tuesday 25 March 2014, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ordered the government to compensate a rape victim, Mildred Mapingure, after the State failed to prevent a pregnancy resultant from the rape. Subsequent to the decision, there has been much…
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SALC’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights Programme Project Lawyer Nyasha Chingore made the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) “Women to Watch in 2014″ list. To mark International Women’s Day, which is celebrated around the world on 8 March each year, MISA…
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On the 5th of November at the 54th session of the African Commission in Banjul, the Gambia, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (African Commission) added its voice to growing calls to stop involuntary sterilisation by adopting a resolution condemning…
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From 3 to 5 October 2013, SALC participated in a Regional Consultative Seminar on “Key Human Rights Issues Affecting Women Living with HIV in Africa” in Dakar, Senegal. The regional seminar was organised by the African Commission on Human and…
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SADC Members of Parliament sitting on the SADC PF HIV Committee met in Johannesburg, South Africa on the 1st of March 2013 to discuss the availability of services and policies related to cervical cancer in the SADC region. The meeting…
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Around the world a woman dies of cervical cancer every two minutes. This is even worse in southern Africa, where cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women — more women in southern Africa die of cervical…
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