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Grave threat to rights of all in Malawi ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawi

Grave threat to rights of all in Malawi

The Business Day By Priti Patel LAST week, a magistrate in Blantyre, Malawi, sentenced Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza to 14 years in prison — the maximum penalty — for…
Priti Patel
24 May 2010
Women’s property rights case to be heard by Malawi’s constitutional court Equality RightsEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenMalawiSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-economic Rights News

Women’s property rights case to be heard by Malawi’s constitutional court

Compared to many of the cases in which we are involved (defending Monjeza and Chimbalanga against charges of buggery, challenging the coerced sterilization of HIV positive women), holding Zimbabwean perpetrators of violence to…
Staff Writer
21 May 2010
Gay sentence ‘an outrage’ ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawi

Gay sentence ‘an outrage’

Human rights groups speak out against Malawi court’s finding Sapa-AP A 14-year jail sentence with hard labour for a Malawian gay couple convicted of violating "the order of nature" after…
Staff Writer
21 May 2010
Being gay in Africa, a life-threatening situation ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawi

Being gay in Africa, a life-threatening situation

New York Times In what may appear shocking to the progressive people of the world, a Malawian gay couple, Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza, was found guilty on Tuesday of…
Staff Writer
21 May 2010