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Zimbabwe: Challenging the Nguni/Ndebele customary succession principle for excluding women from being chiefs Equality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women Completed CasesZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Challenging the Nguni/Ndebele customary succession principle for excluding women from being chiefs

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) is providing crucial support to Ms Silibaziso Mlotshwa as she undertakes the legal challenge against the constitutionality of the Nguni/Ndebele customary succession principle, which…
Staff Writer
20 September 2017
SALC Research Report: Prosecuting sexual violence against women and girls with disabilities in Malawi
SALC Research Report: Prosecuting sexual violence against women and girls with disabilities in Malawi Equality Rights DisabilityEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenMalawiResearch Reports & Policy Briefs

SALC Research Report: Prosecuting sexual violence against women and girls with disabilities in Malawi

This report was prompted by Malawian civil society organisations’ perception that there is a lack of will on the part of police and prosecution to investigate and prosecute cases related…
Staff Writer
31 July 2017
SALC Research Report: Towards a human rights-based approach to learner pregnancy management in Malawi
SALC Research Report: Towards a human rights-based approach to learner pregnancy management in Malawi Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights WomenMalawiResearch Reports & Policy Briefs

SALC Research Report: Towards a human rights-based approach to learner pregnancy management in Malawi

The Malawi government's Revised Readmission Procedures to deal with learner pregnancy was launched in 2006. Ten years later, SALC and the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) conducted research into the…
Staff Writer
31 July 2017
STATEMENT: CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS ON SA GOVERNMENT TO CO-SPONSOR AND SUPPORT RESOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEFORE THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Equality Rights WomenSouth Africa

STATEMENT: CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS ON SA GOVERNMENT TO CO-SPONSOR AND SUPPORT RESOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN BEFORE THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Three important resolutions to address violence and discrimination against women and girls have been tabled at the 35th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. One focuses on the elimination of…
Staff Writer
22 June 2017
Mugoto Settlement Scheme-Legal occupants seek declaration of property rights: Cosmas Mweemba & 22 Others v Chikankata District Council & Another Equality RightsEquality Rights Ongoing CasesEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women Ongoing CasesSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights Ongoing CasesSocio-economic Rights Ongoing CasesZambia

Mugoto Settlement Scheme-Legal occupants seek declaration of property rights: Cosmas Mweemba & 22 Others v Chikankata District Council & Another

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre is working with Zambia Land Alliance-Monze Branch in assisting community members (“Appellants”) of Mugoto Settlement Scheme, Chikankata District, in challenging the decision of the new Chikankata District Council’s taking…
Staff Writer
29 May 2017
Malawi High Court rules in favour of a widow previously dispossessed of her land and grants her a permanent injunction protecting her property rights Equality RightsEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenMalawiSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-economic Rights News

Malawi High Court rules in favour of a widow previously dispossessed of her land and grants her a permanent injunction protecting her property rights

On Monday 22 May 2017, the High Court of Malawi, sitting in Mzuzu, dismissed an action brought by the Plaintiff, a daughter to an elite couple, against the Defendant, an…
Staff Writer
24 May 2017
Malawi: Protecting women from illegal land seizure Equality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women Completed CasesMalawiSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Completed CasesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights Completed Cases

Malawi: Protecting women from illegal land seizure

                SALC is working with Youth Watch Society (YOWSO) to help a poor single woman, Mary, and her widowed mother, Idesi retain the…
Staff Writer
22 May 2017
Malawi: Challenging the criminalisation of breastfeeding by women living with HIV Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice Completed CasesCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform Completed CasesEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health Completed CasesEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women Completed CasesMalawi

Malawi: Challenging the criminalisation of breastfeeding by women living with HIV

SALC worked with the International Coalition of Women living with HIV (ICW), Malawi and a private lawyer, Mr Wesley Mwafulirwa, to support the appeal of a woman living with HIV against her…
Staff Writer
29 January 2017

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