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Kenya: Challenge to indefinite detention of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities for petty offences Equality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights DisabilityEquality Rights Disability Completed Cases

Kenya: Challenge to indefinite detention of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities for petty offences

SALC is partnering with  Arthur's Dream Autism Trust (ADAT) in cases challenging the indefinite detention of four persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, arrested for petty offences at Manthari without…
Staff Writer
20 March 2022
Zambia: Challenging the denial of registration of a deaf student for tertiary studies Equality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights DisabilityEquality Rights Disability Completed CasesZambia

Zambia: Challenging the denial of registration of a deaf student for tertiary studies

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre is worked with Zambia Deaf Youth and Women (ZDYW) in a case challenging the refusal to register a deaf student for tertiary studies. In 2020,…
Staff Writer
10 June 2021
Zambia: Challenging the Mental Disorders Act Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice Completed CasesCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform Completed CasesEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights DisabilityEquality Rights Disability Completed CasesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health Completed CasesZambia

Zambia: Challenging the Mental Disorders Act

SALC supported a petition by three persons with psychosocial disabilities and the Mental Health Users Network of Zambia (MHUNZA) to repeal the Mental Disorders Act of 1949 in Mwewa and Others v the…
Staff Writer
14 December 2017
Malawi: Discriminatory sentencing against persons with albinism Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice Completed CasesCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform Completed CasesEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights DisabilityEquality Rights Disability Completed CasesMalawi

Malawi: Discriminatory sentencing against persons with albinism

SALC is working with the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) and a private lawyer, Mr Daniel Kalaya, to review a discriminatory sentence against a man with albinism…
Staff Writer
8 February 2017