The Rights4All Project, as part of its My Body My Rights Campaign, has produced leaflets on the laws which can be used by sex workers to assert their rights. …
Staff Writer16 Aug 2019
On 8 August 2018, the Malawi High Court in Blantyre heard a constitutional application relating to the case of State v Willias Daudi. Mr Daudi had been convicted of robbery…
Staff Writer17 Aug 2018
The Director of Public Prosecutions issued guidelines, which are intended to guide prosecutors in exercising their duties when prosecuting minor nuisance-related offences. Read the guidelines here.
Staff Writer23 Feb 2018
The Daily Maverick In the past the constitution of Zimbabwe and other legal instruments were not providing for Zimbabweans abroad to vote. However, the 2013 Constitution makes provision for a…
Staff Writer30 Oct 2017
The Nation Victor Mhango and Anneke Meerkotter In January 2017, the Malawi High Court, in the case of Mayeso Gwanda, made a finding that would have reverberations throughout Africa. It…
Staff Writer18 Oct 2017
All persons are entitled to fundamental rights and freedoms, including the right not to be discriminated against, harassed, or abused, and are fully entitled to fair treatment, due process of the law,…
Staff Writer24 Mar 2017
Sex workers include female, male and transgender adults who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally. Sex work refers to commercial sexual activities…
Staff Writer24 Feb 2017
Lawmakers have moved at a snail’s pace to change some draconian laws and history will record that it took a vendor to get the Constitutional Court to invalidate a section…
Staff Writer12 Jan 2017
Every year, on 10 December, the world celebrates International Human Rights Day – the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly…
Staff Writer9 Dec 2016