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Crackdown on Rights Defenders in Tanzania Requires Urgent Action

12 June 2025 – Johannesburg, South Africa The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) is deeply concerned by the alarming trend of harassment, intimidation, and criminalisation of human rights defenders…

Melusi Simelane12 June 2025

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Lets Move from Concern To Action: SALC at 83rd ACHPR Session

Introduction 1. Honourable Chairperson of the Commission, Honourable Commissioners, State Delegates, Participants, and esteemed guests, we appreciate the opportunity to speak at this 83rd session of the African Commission on…

Melusi Simelane5 May 2025

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SA’s arms exports to UAE, a state accused of violating genocide convention

Mail&Guadian Atilla Kisla 12 March 2025 On 6 March 2025, Sudan initiated proceedings against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violations of the Genocide Convention.…

Atilla Kisla12 March 2025

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NEWS RELEASE: Malawi High Court upholds protection of undocumented immigrants from arbitrary and indefinite detention.

30 July 2024, Blantyre – Yesterday, the Mzuzu High Court ordered that 30 days should be the reasonable time envisaged under the Immigration Act within which deportation of undocumented immigrants…