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Sex workers, ARVs and the irrationality of excluding foreigners ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights News

Sex workers, ARVs and the irrationality of excluding foreigners

In recent weeks, the Government of Botswana has announced plans to provide anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy to all sex workers regardless of their CD4 counts. The commendable aim of the initiative, as described by the…
Annabel Raw
26 May 2015
Don’t be slaves of precedent, judges told ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights DisabilityEquality Rights Disability ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesSADCSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights News

Don’t be slaves of precedent, judges told

The Patriot 18 January 2015 High Court of Botswana Judge Key Dingake has called on judges and magistrates to use their judicial powers to ensure that the rights of vulnerable…
Staff Writer
1 April 2015
Fighting TB with prisoners’ rights ArticlesCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsCriminal Justice Prison ReformCriminal Justice Prison Reform ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsSADC

Fighting TB with prisoners’ rights

Thought Leader By Annabel Raw Today is World Tuberculosis Day, commemorating the discovery of the cause of the disease in 1882. Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease with traces in…
Staff Writer
24 March 2015
Zambia’s prisoner transfer agreement ArticlesCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsCriminal Justice Prison ReformCriminal Justice Prison Reform ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights News

Zambia’s prisoner transfer agreement

Annabel Raw The Zambian Prison Service has recently concluded a multilateral agreement with a number of Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states to transfer foreign prisoners to their countries of nationality,…
Staff Writer
19 January 2015
Litigation Centre comes of age 28 November to 4 December 2014 ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights NewsCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights NewsInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsSADCSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsSouth Africa

Litigation Centre comes of age 28 November to 4 December 2014

The Mail & Guardian Nicole Fritz and Priti Patel’s young institution has recently scored major victories in protecting the rights of people in Southern Africa Nicole Fritz and Priti Patel,…
Staff Writer
9 December 2014
Zimbabwean Registrar General makes absurd call for a government ban on contraceptives ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsZimbabwe

Zimbabwean Registrar General makes absurd call for a government ban on contraceptives

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…
Staff Writer
18 July 2014
Supreme Court of Canada champions sex workers’ rights ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights News

Supreme Court of Canada champions sex workers’ rights

On 20 December 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada made a significant ruling relating to the rights of sex workers. In the case of Canada (Attorney General) v Bedford, a unanimous…
Staff Writer
10 January 2014
Trial of Paul Kasonkomona points to politically motivated arrest ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsZambia

Trial of Paul Kasonkomona points to politically motivated arrest

  On 16 October 2013, the long awaited trial of human rights activist, Paul Kasonkomona, proceeded in the Lusaka Magistrates Court in Zambia. Evidence led by the State during Kasonkomona’s…
Staff Writer
18 October 2013

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