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The arm of imperialism: The church’s anti-gender and anti-SOGIE rhetoric ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawiNamibiaRule of LawSouth Africa

The arm of imperialism: The church’s anti-gender and anti-SOGIE rhetoric

Washington Blade 23 August 2023 By Anna Mmolai-Chalmers Anti-rights agenda in Africa has weaponized LGBTQ, intersex rights. Recently, in Botswana, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya and Malawi, the church has thrown the…
Anna Chalmers-Mmolai
24 August 2023
Botswana religious groups threaten rule of law and refuse LGBTQ rights ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights News

Botswana religious groups threaten rule of law and refuse LGBTQ rights

Washington Blade 7 August 2023 By: Bradley Fortuin and Matlhogonolo Samsam Country’s Council of Churches applauded 2019 decriminalization ruling. Botswana is considered a secular state and all people have equal…
Bradley Fortuin
14 August 2023
LGBTQ rights and inclusion amid Botswana’s constitutional review process ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights News

LGBTQ rights and inclusion amid Botswana’s constitutional review process

Washington Blade 5 April 2023 By: Bradley Fortuin All Batswana must be included in the debate (Featured photo: Constitutional review interest group meeting in Kasane, Botswana. Taken by Raymond Kolanyane)…
Bradley Fortuin
6 April 2023
Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow: International Women Human Rights Defenders Day ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesSADCSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Climate JusticeSocio-Economic Rights Climate Justice ArticlesSocio-economic Rights News

Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow: International Women Human Rights Defenders Day

On 29 November 2022, the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) commemorates International Women's Human Rights Defenders Day under the theme “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow." SALC, whose mandate…
Bradley Fortuin
29 November 2022
Justice delayed, justice denied: The impact on CSOs and litigants ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawiSADC

Justice delayed, justice denied: The impact on CSOs and litigants

The Nation, Malawi Published 1 February 2023 By Anna Mmlai-Chalmers If you or your organisation have been involved in litigation, you are undoubtedly aware that litigation is a lengthy process.…
Anna Chalmers-Mmolai
21 November 2022
Hate speech and LGBTI rights: perspectives from the Jon Qwelane case ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsSouth Africa

Hate speech and LGBTI rights: perspectives from the Jon Qwelane case

Mail & Guardian By Atilla Kisla South Africa’s obligation to prohibit hate speech under international law extends to hate speech against LGBTI persons. In Jonathan Dubula Qwelane v South African…
Atilla Kisla
19 September 2020
SALC Journal Article: Decriminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts and the Botswana Constitution: Letsweletse Motshidiemang v The Attorney-General (LEGABIBO as amicus curiae) ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights News

SALC Journal Article: Decriminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts and the Botswana Constitution: Letsweletse Motshidiemang v The Attorney-General (LEGABIBO as amicus curiae)

In the African Human Rights Law Journal, SALC's Tashwill Esterhuizen, examines the recent judgment in Letsweletse Motshidiemang v The Attorney-General in which the High Court of Botswana decriminalised consensual same-sex…
Staff Writer
13 January 2020
Progressive Botswana court affirms that legal recognition gender identity at core of human dignity ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights News

Progressive Botswana court affirms that legal recognition gender identity at core of human dignity

The Daily Maverick Tashwill Esterhuizen For the second time in two years, the Botswana courts have shown themselves to be champions of jurisprudence which acknowledges the rights of lesbian, gay,…
Staff Writer
21 November 2017