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Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional

By Anneke Meerkotter, Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and Ian Southey-Swartz, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) In 2009, a group of women, presumed to be sex workers, was arrested as…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

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Malawi: Mandatory HIV testing of women

On 10 March 2011, eleven women from Mwanza, Malawi, filed an application in the Blantyre High Court challenging their subjection to mandatory HIV tests, the admission of the HIV test…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

Equality Rights Health Malawi

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT DECLARES MANDATORY HIV TESTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT SAYS MANDATORY HIV TESTING VIOLATES CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Blantyre, 20 May 2015 – Today, Justice Dorothy nyaKaunda Kamanga, handed down judgment in the Blantyre High Court in…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

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Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case

20 May 2015 Malawi High Court judge Justice nyaKaunda Kamanga on Wednesday ruled that the police and the medical personnel violated the rights of 11 Mwanza women by subjecting them…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

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Courts urged to protect vulnerable groups

Blantyre, March 25: The Judiciary has been urged to interpret and fashion the law to ensure fulfillment of principle of equality on the various vulnerable groups in the country. Chief Justice…

Staff Writer25 March 2015

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Court set up intimidatory-judiciary

Malawi Nation 22 March 2015 The court set up and the way proceedings are conducted is intimidatory to people, including witnesses, Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda has said. The Chief Justice…

Staff Writer24 March 2015

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Women consent to sex

Malawi Nation 22 March 2015 A Supreme Court judge has said courts should not regard silence of a girl or woman as consent to sexual intercourse. The judge, Lovemore Chikopa,…

Staff Writer24 March 2015

Equality Rights Women Malawi

REGIONAL RIGHTS BODY REPORTS MALAWI TO THE UN

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has reported Malawi to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women, raising concerns over the criminalisation of…

Staff Writer15 February 2015

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Malawi shadow report: Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has submitted a shadow report on Malawi to the Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (the Committee). Between 26…

Staff Writer10 February 2015

Civic Rights Malawi

MALAWI HIGH COURT ISSUES NARROW DECISION ON STANDING

Over 6 years after hearing arguments, the Constitutional Court in Malawi issued in February a unanimous decision in Constitutional-Court-Judgment, a challenge to section 17 of the Married Women Property Rights, which…

Priti Patel20 March 2014

Malawi

Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional

Malawi: Mandatory HIV testing of women

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT DECLARES MANDATORY HIV TESTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case

Courts urged to protect vulnerable groups

Court set up intimidatory-judiciary

Women consent to sex

REGIONAL RIGHTS BODY REPORTS MALAWI TO THE UN

Malawi shadow report: Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women

MALAWI HIGH COURT ISSUES NARROW DECISION ON STANDING

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