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Living on the earnings of sex work in Malawi – a typical tale of misinterpreting the law to conveniently criminalise sex workers Criminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Resources

Living on the earnings of sex work in Malawi – a typical tale of misinterpreting the law to conveniently criminalise sex workers

To be clear, no provision in the Malawi Penal Code criminalises the selling of sexual services by a sex worker. Yet, some police officers in Malawi appear to be operating under the…
Staff Writer
7 August 2013
a preliminary study of the law and practice relating to arrests for nuisance related offences in blantyre malawi
SALC Research Report: No justice for the poor: A preliminary study of enforcement of nuisance-related offences in Blantyre, Malawi Criminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice ResourcesResearch Reports & Policy Briefs

SALC Research Report: No justice for the poor: A preliminary study of enforcement of nuisance-related offences in Blantyre, Malawi

Globally, there has been an increase in the implementation of laws which limit the behaviour, actions and movements of persons in public spaces. This greatly impedes the lives and livelihoods…
Staff Writer
24 July 2013
Malawi: Right to bail for terminally ill remandees Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice Completed CasesCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform Completed CasesEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health Completed CasesMalawi

Malawi: Right to bail for terminally ill remandees

SALC is challenging the fact that terminally ill remandees have no opportunity to provide evidence to an independent arbiter on the state of their health. This presents a serious challenge…
Staff Writer
21 November 2010
Punitive laws do little to stem the HIV tide ArticlesCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsSADC

Punitive laws do little to stem the HIV tide

Business Day Priti Patel SEX, drugs, rock ’n’ roll with a reality show thrown in: sounds like the perfect cocktail for a media extravaganza. Well it was, just not in…
Priti Patel
2 September 2010
Malawi gay sentenced slammed ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawi

Malawi gay sentenced slammed

African civil society organisations have slammed a 14-year jail sentence with hard labour for a Malawian gay couple, convicted of violating "the order of nature" after staging a same sex…
Staff Writer
20 May 2010
World leaders named and shamed as “press predators” Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights NewsCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice News

World leaders named and shamed as “press predators”

Seventeen presidents and heads of government made the list of “predators of press freedom” by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Included in the list of 40 are China’s Hu Jintao, Iran’s…
Staff Writer
3 May 2010

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