6 August 2012 The Atlantic From the 19th International AIDS Conference, looking at how far we’ve come and how far we have to go before an AIDS-free generation In 1959,…
Staff Writer6 August 2012
The Thought Leader, Mail&Guardian By Anneke Meerkotter The first thing you are confronted with when you walk into the service section of the South African embassy in Harare is a…
Anneke Meerkotter24 May 2012
Increasingly, leaders in Africa are able to propagate hate speech against LGBT persons with shameless impunity. On 10 May 2012, for example, at a community gathering, the Zimbabwean Minister of Local…
Staff Writer17 May 2012
Mmegi Online The issue of whether to distribute condoms in prisons is a hot potato that has pitted the government against AIDS organisations. It has pitted Vice-President Mompati Merafhe, against…
Staff Writer5 October 2010
Nyasa Times Malawi’s Vice president, Joyce Banda, has urged the faith leaders to open up on same sex partners in order for the country to make significant strides in the…
Staff Writer29 September 2010
Lawyers for Malawi’s convicted first openly gay couple has said the pair has instructed him to appeal to the country’s High Court against the harsh sentence handed to them. Blantyre…
Staff Writer25 May 2010
The Business Day By Priti Patel LAST week, a magistrate in Blantyre, Malawi, sentenced Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza to 14 years in prison — the maximum penalty — for…
Priti Patel24 May 2010
LILONGWE, May 21 (IPS) – Rejecting the argument that the arrest and trial of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga amounted to a violation of their rights to freedom of concsience…
Staff Writer21 May 2010
Human rights groups speak out against Malawi court’s finding Sapa-AP A 14-year jail sentence with hard labour for a Malawian gay couple convicted of violating "the order of nature" after…
Staff Writer21 May 2010