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Botswana Court to hear appeal to decision allowing women to inherit under customary law

Gaborone – On Friday 19 July, the Court of Appeal in Gaborone, Botswana will hear arguments in Ramantele v Mmusi and Others, an appeal from a High Court decision striking down…
Staff Writer
18 July 2013
Steps forward in fighting cervical cancer ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesSADCZimbabwe

Steps forward in fighting cervical cancer

The fight against cervical cancer in Africa received a welcome boost when Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, the two pharmaceutical companies that make vaccines protecting individuals from specific cancer-causing strains of the human…
Priti Patel
5 June 2013
Homosexual case referred to High Court ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsZambia

Homosexual case referred to High Court

Zambian Watchdog The Lusaka Magistrate’s Court ruled today that the criminal case against HIV activist Paul Kasonkomona should be transferred to the High Court for a hearing on the constitutional…
Staff Writer
22 May 2013
Lesotho denies women right to be Chiefs ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesLesothoSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsSocio-economic Rights Resources

Lesotho denies women right to be Chiefs

Business Day Business Day, Ernest Mabuza, May 17 2013–The Johannesburg-based Southern Africa Litigation Centre branded Thursday a dark day for women in Lesotho after the mountain kingdom’s Constitutional Court upheld…
Staff Writer
17 May 2013
Lesotho Court fails women by denying them the right to succeed to chieftainship Equality RightsEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-economic Rights News

Lesotho Court fails women by denying them the right to succeed to chieftainship

Johannesburg, 16 May – Lesotho’s Constitutional Court today struck a serious blow against women’s rights and gender equality by upholding a discriminatory section of the Chieftainship Act, which denies all daughters…
Staff Writer
16 May 2013
An exciting week in court for SALC: Freedom of expression, the right to equality, refugee law and international criminal law ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesLesothoSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSouth AfricaZambia

An exciting week in court for SALC: Freedom of expression, the right to equality, refugee law and international criminal law

SALC will be in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the South Gauteng High Court, the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court and the Lesotho High Court this week for cases that deal…
Caroline James
15 May 2013
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LEGABIBO appeals to High Court

Daily News Fourteen applicants comprising homosexuals and those into dual sex relationships who want a group to be registered in terms of the Societies Act have filed a case against…
Staff Writer
11 April 2013

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