In February and March 2014 the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, the National Association of Women Judges and Magistrates (Botswana) and the judiciaries in Malawi and Zambia co-hosted judicial colloquia on…
Staff Writer24 December 2014
Introduction In advance of the consideration of Namibia’s fourth and fifth periodic report to the Committee for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (the Committee), the Southern…
Staff Writer11 December 2014
Aljazeera Supreme court upholds judgment from 2012 that health workers coerced three HIV positive mothers to consent to prodedure. Namibia’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that health workers sterilised…
Staff Writer4 December 2014
IOL 25 November 2014 Gaborone – Advocacy group, Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (Legabibo), will re-apply to register as an organisation, it said on Tuesday. Legabibo will make a…
Staff Writer26 November 2014
BBC 14 November 2014 A gay and lesbian group in Botswana has won a landmark legal case in the country’s High Court, allowing it to be officially registered. The judge…
Staff Writer17 November 2014
The Herald THE landmark ruling by the Supreme Court in the rape-pregnancy case of Mildred Mapingure marked an important legal turning point for women’s sexual and reproductive rights in Zimbabwe,…
Staff Writer10 November 2014
Star Africa 12 September 2014 The Botswana government has not yet complied with a recent High Court ruling that ordered it to provide anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to HIV-positive foreign prisoners,…
Staff Writer15 September 2014
Citizen A complaint has been lodged with the African Commission about a law providing for male-only succession to chieftainship in Lesotho, the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (Salc) said on Tuesday.Citizen…
Staff Writer10 September 2014
SABC News 22 August 2014 Botswana has been ordered to provide ARV’s to foreign inmates. This was the judgment of the Botswana High Court. Two HIV-positive foreign nationals took the…
Staff Writer25 August 2014