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International Criminal Justice News South Africa

SALC IN THE NEWS: SOUTH AFRICA’S SMART STEPS TOWARDS REVERSING THE LEGACY OF MYANMAR VOTE

Johannesburg — LAST week, Minister for International Relations and Co-operation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane condemned the trial of Myanmar’s Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, and called for her unconditional release. Then this week, the minister’s deputy, Ebrahim Ebrahim, met the Myanmar ambassador to convey the government’s concern and mooted the idea…

Staff Writer28 May 2009

Criminal Justice News Rule of Law Zimbabwe

SALC IN THE NEWS: ZIMBABWE: TOP LAWYER’S ARREST SHOWS HOW FAR COUNTRY MUST STILL TRAVEL

Johannesburg — WHEN I travel in southern Africa meeting human rights lawyers and civil society activists, whose work often earns them the enmity of their governments, I play a rather perverse, fatalistic game with myself — weighing up which country, if it had to happen, I would prefer to be…

Staff Writer19 May 2009

Health Rights News Zambia

SALC NEWS RELEASE: ZAMBIAN HIGH COURT TO HEAR GROUNDBREAKING HIV CASE

On Wednesday, 20 May, the Livingstone High Court will hear a ground-breaking case determining whether mandatory testing for HIV and discrimination solely on the basis of HIV status is constitutional in Zambia. The case, Kingaipe and Another v Attorney-General, involves two former Zambian Air Force (ZAF) employees, Stainley Kingaipe and Charles…

Staff Writer19 May 2009

International Criminal Justice News South Africa

SALC IN THE NEWS: ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC FIASCO LOOMS

2 May 2009 It’s hard to imagine that the South African government would risk having the inauguration of incoming president, Jacob Zuma overshadowed by having to arrest President Omar Hassan al Bashir of Sudan, and yet that is a scenario South Africa now seems to have put in place. Because, while…

Staff Writer2 May 2009

International Criminal Justice News Rule of Law Zimbabwe

THE WEEKENDER – ZIMBABWE: GENERALS HOLD OUT FOR AMNESTY

Zimbabwe’s peace is being held to ransom, raising the question of whether peace is possible without justice, writes NICOLE FRITZ THE hot topic for discussion in Zimbabwe’s new government of national unity isn’t stemming the spread of cholera or reversing the economy’s decline, but negotiating an amnesty deal. Zanu (PF)…

Staff Writer24 Feb 2009

Health Rights Namibia News Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

AGENDA 75 – THE COERCED STERILISATION OF HIV-POSITIVE WOMEN IN NAMIBIA

Abstract Forced and coerced sterilisation is synonymous with a paternalistic desire to control women’s reproductive capacity. It is a practice that has always targeted the most marginalised people in society, including mentally ill or disabled persons, racial minorities, poor women, and people living with specific illnesses. Throughout the early 20th century,…

Staff Writer26 Jan 2009

International Criminal Justice News Zimbabwe

News release from Southern Africa litigation centre

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has requested the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to take action on its evidence of torture by Zimbabwean officials of actual and perceived supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in March 2007. Lloyd Kuveya, a lawyer at SALC stated: "It has been more…

Staff Writer4 Dec 2008