Steven Monjeza (L) and Tiwonge Chimbalanga (R) face 14 years in jail. A judge in Malawi says that two gay men arrested in December after getting engaged have a case…
Staff Writer22 March 2010
Blantyre – Police in Malawi said on Sunday they were hunting down key figures in the country’s gay community after discovering "pornographic films" at the office of a rights group.…
Staff Writer28 February 2010
Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza were arrested in late December and have been tried in a magistrate’s court in this conservative Southern African country where homosexuality is illegal. Their lawyer…
Staff Writer24 February 2010
Rights campaigners say current laws against gays are a violation of human rights. In late December, two gay men held an engagement ceremony – and were promptly arrested. The event…
Staff Writer19 February 2010
The newly appointed Director at Botswana Network Of Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), Uyapo Ndadi is set to fight it out with government in court over section 164 of the…
Staff Writer19 February 2010
Nicole Fritz The Business Day IN THE debate over the International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the respective sides — the justice purists and the peace…
Nicole Fritz16 February 2010
The City Press By Nicole Fritz and Priti Patel FOR some of us, our first recollection of Valentine’s Day is of some humiliating school-time ritual in which we had to…
Staff Writer14 February 2010
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR THE REPEAL OF DISCRIMINATORY LAWS AND THE DISMISSAL OF CHARGES IN MALAWI SAME-SEX CASE We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our deep concern at…
Staff Writer21 January 2010
Reality Check As far back as 2001, women living with HIV/AIDS were being sterilized in Namibian hospitals, without their autonomous consent. Shockingly, these women, whose cases the International Community of…
Staff Writer18 November 2009