Ongoing Cases
MALAWI: CHALLENGING CRIMINALISATION OF ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY...
SALC is working with Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) – Malawi in a challenge to the law of defilement in s138 of the…
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Eswatini: Challenging the Refusal to Register an Advocacy Group...
In September 2019, Eswatini’s Registrar of Companies refused to register the organisation Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities (ESGM). The Registrar…
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Malawi: Seeking accountability for unlawful detention of pregnant learners...
SALC is working with Youth Watch Society (YOWSO) in Malawi on a case seeking the payment of damages for false…
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JONATHAN DUBULA QWELANE V SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND ANOTHER...
On 22 September 2020, the Constitutional Court will hear the case of Jonathan Dubula Qwelane v South African Human Rights…
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Nigeria: Challenge to arbitrary arrest of women during sweeping exercises...
Factual Background At 11pm on 22 February 2017, the Joint Task Force broke down the doors of the homes of…
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REVOCATION OF VISA TO A CONVICTED DUTCH WAR CRIMINAL: AUGUSTINUS MARIA KOUWENHOV...
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre has filed an application requesting the Western Cape High Court to cancel the visa of…
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SALC has filed an application to cancel the visa of convicted Dutch war criminal and fugitive from justice, Guus Kouvenhowen.…
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Eswatini: Challenge to the Common Law Marital Power and Marriage Act...
SALC is working with Women and Law in Southern Africa’s Swaziland chapter (WLSA-Swaziland) on a case challenging the common law…
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