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Botswana: Challenge to the offence of sedition BotswanaCivic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Completed CasesCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed Cases

Botswana: Challenge to the offence of sedition

In September 2014, a warrant of arrest was issued for Botswana journalist, Outsa Makone, charging him with sedition after the publication of an article in the Sunday Standard on 31…
Staff Writer
5 February 2018
Zimbabwe: Challenging the disenfranchisement of Zimbabweans in the diaspora Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Completed CasesCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed CasesZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Challenging the disenfranchisement of Zimbabweans in the diaspora

Shumba & Others v Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs & Others SALC supported three members of the Zimbabwe Diaspora, represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, who challenged…
Staff Writer
18 January 2018
Malawi: Challenging refusal of admission to school Civic RightsCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed CasesEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesMalawiSocio-economic Rights Completed CasesSocio-economic Rights EducationSocio-Economic Rights Education Completed Cases

Malawi: Challenging refusal of admission to school

Factual Background The applicant was refused enrolment at a school on the basis that he had dreadlocks. Over the years, there have been a number of reports of schools refusing…
Staff Writer
21 December 2017
Zimbabwe: Protecting marginalised groups’ right to assembly Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Completed CasesCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed CasesZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Protecting marginalised groups’ right to assembly

On 28 November 2017, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe set aside the decision of the High Court of Zimbabwe, in which the High Court refused the Sexual Rights Centre (SRC)…
Staff Writer
28 November 2017
STATEMENT: 61ST ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE’S RIGHTS, BANJUL, THE GAMBIA |1-15 November 2017 Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionSADC

STATEMENT: 61ST ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE’S RIGHTS, BANJUL, THE GAMBIA |1-15 November 2017

SALC is attending the 61st  Ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights in Banjul, Republic of the Gambia. The organisation, yesterday, made submissions on freedom of expression in Lesotho and…
Staff Writer
7 November 2017
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Malawi: Challenging the refusal to register LGBTIQ+ organisation in Malawi Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Ongoing CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Ongoing CasesCivic Rights Ongoing CasesEquality RightsEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ Ongoing CasesEquality Rights Ongoing CasesMalawi

Malawi: Challenging the refusal to register LGBTIQ+ organisation in Malawi

Legal Framework Section 32 of the Malawi Constitution protects freedom of assembly and association. The section states that every person shall have the right to freedom of association, which shall…
Staff Writer
17 August 2017
Zimbabwe: Challenging unlawful arrest of transgender woman Civic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed CasesEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ Completed CasesZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Challenging unlawful arrest of transgender woman

On 16 January 2014 a transgender activist was arrested in Bulawayo after entering a female toilet. At the police station she was forced to strip and examined by medical doctors…
Staff Writer
28 July 2017