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A helping hand: Southern Africa and extraordinary renditions

A recent report by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) reveals that more than a quarter of the world’s states provided support to the United States’ secret detention and rendition programmes, adopted in the wake…

Staff Writer11 March 2013

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Not so much a surprise that the SADC tribunal was disbanded but that it was formed at all

On Friday, 1 March, Judge Ariranga Pillay, former Judge President of the SADC Tribunal, Professor Laurie Nathan of the Centre for Mediation in Africa at the University of Pretoria and…

Staff Writer11 March 2013

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South Africa must come clean on extra-legal renditions

The Business Day By Nicole Fritz THE Oscar-nominated film, Zero Dark Thirty, depicting the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) hunt for Osama bin Laden, has generated fierce controversy for suggesting that…

Staff Writer27 February 2013

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AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY UNITES: 140 AFRICAN NGOS WRITE TO AU CHAIRPERSON NKOSAZANA DLAMINI-ZUMA ON THE ISSUE OF IMPUNITY FOR INT’L CRIMES

The African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit gets underway next week in Ethiopia. Many will be eagerly watching to see how newly elected AU Chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, oversees proceedings…

Staff Writer18 January 2013

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Investigations into international crime: An inconvenience for high-level accused

According to Business Day, former Madagascan president Marc Ravalomanana has approached South Africa’s Constitutional Court to appeal restrictions imposed on his movements as a result of an ongoing investigation into allegations that…

Staff Writer10 January 2013

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130 AFRICAN ORGANISATIONS UNITE TO SUPPORT THE ICC

130 African civil society organisations, including SALC, have united to encourage African governments to support the ICC during the extraordinary AU summit where withdrawal from the Rome Statute will be…

Angela Mudukuti1 January 2013

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LTTE lobby pressures SA to reject Deputy HC Shavendra Silva

Colombo: Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has petitioned South African President Zuma against accepting Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva as Sri Lanka Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa. Nicole Fritz, Director…

Staff Writer10 December 2012

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South Africa rejects Silva for Deputy Ambassadorship?

Tamilnet Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), a non-profit group that promotes human rights and rule of law in South Africa, noting that South Africa’s President is constitutionally mandated, in terms…

Staff Writer8 December 2012

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Diplomatic impunity – why suspected war criminals should not be diplomats

It was recently reported that Sri Lanka intended to deploy suspected war criminal, General Shavendra Silva, to South Africa to take up the post of deputy ambassador. In anticipation of…

Staff Writer6 December 2012

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Rwanda cancels exiles’ passports

The Mail & Guardian 30 November 2012 The government of Rwanda has cancelled the passports of several key opposition leaders in exile, rendering some of these people stateless. This comes…

Staff Writer30 November 2012

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