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CSOs Threaten Legal Action Over US Deportations to Eswatini

Mbabane, 18 July 2025 – This week, the Trump Administration sent five individuals to be imprisoned in Eswatini. Their removal from the US and arrival in Eswatini have raised numerous…

Melusi Simelane18 July 2025

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The truth behind Parliamentarians Enacting Conservative laws

Citizens have no choice but to wonder if their members of Parliament are making laws informed by the needs of the citizens or whether they are pushing ideologies and needs…

Staff Writer11 June 2024

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The arm of imperialism: The church’s anti-gender and anti-SOGIE rhetoric

Washington Blade 23 August 2023 By Anna Mmolai-Chalmers Anti-rights agenda in Africa has weaponized LGBTQ, intersex rights. Recently, in Botswana, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya and Malawi, the church has thrown the…

Anna Chalmers-Mmolai24 August 2023

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Human Rights organisations call on South African authorities to denounce attacks against South Africa’s Constitution, human rights and equality

9 August 2023 In view of the participation of members of South Africa’s executive and judiciary in the annual African Bar Association conference, which this year is being co-sponsored by…

Staff Writer9 August 2023

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Uganda: Repeals vagrancy, sedition, and false news offences

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) notes that the Uganda Law Revision (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, 2023, has repealed some of the rogue and vagabond, sedition, and false news offences in…

Staff Writer11 July 2023

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No need for debate, uphold the Court of Appeal decision on LGBTIQ+ rights in Botswana

Botswana, Gaborone – 10 July 2023. Botswana’s Parliament intends to table a number of bills in the current session, one of which seeks to repeal section 164 of the Penal…

Staff Writer10 July 2023

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SALC submission to the OHCHR for the Tanzania UPR

In March 2021, SALC made a submission to the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights for the Tanzania UPR 39th session. Read the submission here.

Staff Writer25 March 2021

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Endangering lawyers and the rule of law in Lesotho and Swaziland

Annabel Raw & Caroline James Friday 22 January is the international Day of the Endangered Lawyer. It is a day in which we draw focus on those in the legal profession…

Staff Writer22 January 2016

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Trampling on the rule of law in Lesotho

Daily Maverick By Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh Lesotho has faced repeated political and security crises over many years. Politics in the impoverished mountain kingdom has been marked by coups and assassinations and…

Staff Writer30 October 2015

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Two men wrongfully jailed in Swaziland

Jacaranda FM Former Swazi political prisoners Bheki Makhubu and Thulani Maseko have demanded multi-million rand settlements from King Mswati’s government for wrongful imprisonment. Makhubu, a newsmagazine editor, and Maseko, an…

Staff Writer23 October 2015

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