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LEGABIBO challenges refusal to register organisation

Weekend Post Fourteen individuals recently filed a case before the High Court, asking the court to review the decision by the Director of Civil and National Registration and the Minister…
Staff Writer
6 April 2013
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SADC Tribunal paid the price for threatening States’ authority

The Business Day TANZANIAN president Jakaya Kikwete is said to have described it as a monster that will “devour us all”. Now the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal —…
Staff Writer
28 January 2013
Uganda’s anti-homosexuality Bill should not be on the parliamentary agenda of a country battling to maintain credibility ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights News

Uganda’s anti-homosexuality Bill should not be on the parliamentary agenda of a country battling to maintain credibility

First published as a Legal Brief on Polity.org.za 30 November 2012 By Anneke Meekotter Debates are raging within Uganda these past two weeks which have taken the country and the world…
Staff Writer
30 November 2012
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AU court to rule on SADC tribunal suspension

The Zimbabwean In a landmark legal request, the African Court on Human and People’s Rights has been asked to use its advisory powers to determine whether the suspension of the…
Staff Writer
26 November 2012
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SADC leaders duplicitous in axing tribunal

Mail&Guardian By Nicole Fritz 7 September 2012 So often are the winds of change said to blow through the southern reaches of Africa that the uninformed might think there are…
Staff Writer
7 September 2012
Tutu: SADC decision on tribunal is a blow against accountable government and individual rights Civic Rights Judicial IndependenceCivic Rights NewsRule of LawSADCSouth Africa

Tutu: SADC decision on tribunal is a blow against accountable government and individual rights

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has responded to the SADC Summit’s decision  to deny SADC peoples access to the Tribunal, calling the decision “a tragedy. It is a blow against accountable government and individual…
Staff Writer
22 August 2012
When will we recognize that hate speech against the LGBT community is not OK? Civic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsSADC

When will we recognize that hate speech against the LGBT community is not OK?

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 Writer
17 May 2012