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Tragic lack of urgency in dealing with child marriages ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesZimbabwe

Tragic lack of urgency in dealing with child marriages

On 15 August 2021, Tambudzai Gonese-Manjonjo wrote an article for the Standard (Zimbabwe) tackling the lack of urgency in dealing with child marriages. Read the article here .
Tambudzai Gonese
21 September 2021
Refusing bail of MPs reeks of politics not justice ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEswatini

Refusing bail of MPs reeks of politics not justice

On 25 July 2021, Members of Parliament Mduduzi Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube were arrested and charged with the contravention of section 5(1) read with section 2(a)-(d) of the Suppression…
Thabo Buthelezi
20 August 2021
Malawi High Court declared detention of children in police custody unlawful ArticlesCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsCriminal Justice Prison ReformCriminal Justice Prison Reform ArticlesMalawi

Malawi High Court declared detention of children in police custody unlawful

Blantyre, 30 July 2021 – The Malawi High Court today delivered a judgment declaring the lower Court’s detention of children in police custody unlawful. The presiding Judge, Justice Chirwa, stated…
Staff Writer
30 July 2021
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Back to old habits? South African arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the UAE ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice Arms TradeInternational Justice Arms Trade ArticlesInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsSouth Africa

Back to old habits? South African arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the UAE

Mail&Guardian 7 June 2021 By Atilla Kisla Following illegal and unethical arms trades to countries with very poor human rights records under apartheid, democratic South Africa established a legal framework…
Atilla Kisla
7 June 2021
African Court challenges States to rethink the basis of their criminal laws ArticlesCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsSADC

African Court challenges States to rethink the basis of their criminal laws

Published on Africa.com on 22 January 2021 On 4 December 2020, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued an Advisory Opinion which challenges the very notions which underpin…
Anneke Meerkotter
27 January 2021
João Rodrigues, apartheid-era crimes and the question of a blanket amnesty ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice TortureInternational Justice Torture ArticlesSADC

João Rodrigues, apartheid-era crimes and the question of a blanket amnesty

Mail and Guardian 6 November 2020 By Atilla Kisla Today, on 6 November 2020, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) hears the case of João Rodrigues v National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others. João…
Atilla Kisla
16 November 2020
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

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