Introduction On Friday 15 April 2016 the Lesotho Court of Appeal heard arguments on a challenge by 23 members of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) to decisions relating to their…
Submission to the committee on the rights of the child regarding the government of Malawi’s combined third, fourth and fifth periodic In advance of the preparation of the list of…
The Forum on the Participation of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the 57th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (NGO Forum) has just ended and what…
29 September 2015 Malawi Nation Migration experts say Malawi lies on the South Road, an unchartered route for irregular migrants from the Horn of Africa in their trek to South…
Star Africa 24 September 2015 Botswana’s Ministry of Health has issued a savingram to all relevant departments ordering the dispensary of Anti-Retroviral Therapy-ARV treatment to all foreign inmates, APA learnt…
On Wednesday 16 September 2015, SALC attended a hearing in the Lesotho High Court in the matter of Mareka and 22 others v the Commander of the Lesotho Defence Force and…
Huffington Post JOHANNESBURG — On April 15 of this year, Themba Maphosa awoke to news that five immigrants had been killed by South African gangs the previous night in Durban.…
BBC News 26 August 2015 Botswana’s court of appeal has upheld a ruling that foreign prisoners should receive free treatment for HIV/Aids, rights lawyers say. Foreign prisoners were previously expected…
The Nation The High Court in Blantyre yesterday ruled in favour of 11 sex workers who were subjected to a mandatory HIV test in Malawi’s southern district of Mwanza in…
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…