29 – 31 August, 2016 Venue: University of the Witwatersrand, School of Law Some of the Topics to be Explored Include: Political Parties in Public Interest Litigation Universities as…
Staff Writer30 Jun 2016
JOHANNESBURG 16 – 18 SEPTEMBER 2015 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) will hold a litigation workshop on the right…
Staff Writer20 Jul 2015
Nicole Fritz and Priti Patel’s young institution has recently scored major victories in protecting the rights of people in Southern Africa Nicole Fritz and Priti Patel, despite living on different…
Staff Writer9 Dec 2014
Supreme court upholds judgment from 2012 that health workers coerced three HIV positive mothers to consent to prodedure. Namibia’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that health workers sterilised HIV-positive…
Staff Writer4 Dec 2014
Gaborone – Today, the Gaborone High Court delivered judgment in a case concerning the Department of Labour and Home Affairs’ refusal to register the organisation Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana…
Staff Writer14 Nov 2014
Johannesburg: The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) expresses its deepest concern at reports from Swaziland that Vincent Ncongwane, the secretary general of the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA), was prevented…
Staff Writer27 Aug 2014
SABC News 22 August 2014 Botswana has been ordered to provide ARV’s to foreign inmates. This was the judgment of the Botswana High Court. Two HIV-positive foreign nationals took the…
Staff Writer25 Aug 2014
12 August 2014 The Business Day YOU would think those who do human rights-related work might get to console themselves with the idea that their cause is just. But in…
Staff Writer13 Aug 2014
Johannesburg, 17 April – Lesotho’s highest court today struck a serious blow against women’s rights and gender equality by upholding a discriminatory section of the Chieftainship Act, which denies daughters the…
Staff Writer17 Apr 2014