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Media advisory: Eswatini government rounds up activists Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionEswatini

Media advisory: Eswatini government rounds up activists

20 December 2019, Mbabane – In a coordinated operation in the early hours of this morning, Eswatini police visited the houses of a number of pro-democracy activists including Sikelela Dlamini,…

Staff Writer20 December 2019

Opinion: Eswatini’s citizens condemn lavish spending by the monarchy at their peril ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEswatini

Opinion: Eswatini’s citizens condemn lavish spending by the monarchy at their peril

Published in the Daily Maverick on 17 December 2019 In a time of economic hardship for Eswatini, citizens saw the arrival of a large fleet of luxury cars for the…

Anneke Meerkotter20 December 2019

Nigeria: Challenge to arbitrary arrest of women during sweeping exercises Criminal Justice Completed CasesCriminal Justice Criminal Police Abuse Completed CasesCriminal Justice Police AbuseEquality RightsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women Completed Cases

Nigeria: Challenge to arbitrary arrest of women during sweeping exercises

Factual Background At 11pm on 22 February 2017, the Joint Task Force broke down the doors of the homes of the applicants, assaulted them, indecently searched them, took the money…

Staff Writer20 December 2019

Zambia Supreme Court upholds prisoner’s rights to food and improved prison conditions Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice NewsCriminal Justice Prison ReformZambia

Zambia Supreme Court upholds prisoner’s rights to food and improved prison conditions

Lusaka, 16 December 2019 – The Supreme Court of Zambia on 9 December 2019 handed down an important judgment on prisoners’ rights. The case was brought by two prisoners with…

Staff Writer16 December 2019

Zambia: Health rights of HIV-positive prisoners Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice Completed CasesCriminal Justice Criminal Prison Reform Completed CasesCriminal Justice Prison ReformEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health Completed CasesZambia

Zambia: Health rights of HIV-positive prisoners

SALC is working with the Legal Resources Foundation in Zambia to secure the rights of HIV-positive prisoners to treatment, adequate food and improvements to prison conditions. The applicant inmates alleged…

Staff Writer16 December 2019

Statement condemning Tanzania’s withdrawal of individuals’ access to the African Court Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionTanzania

Statement condemning Tanzania’s withdrawal of individuals’ access to the African Court

The below mentioned organisations are deeply concerned that the Tanzanian government has announced that it has withdrawn the right of individuals and NGOs to directly file cases against the State…

Staff Writer6 December 2019

South Africa: Revocation of visa to a convicted Dutch war criminal: Augustinus Maria Kouwenhoven International JusticeInternational Justice Completed CasesInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes Completed CasesSouth Africa

South Africa: Revocation of visa to a convicted Dutch war criminal: Augustinus Maria Kouwenhoven

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre has filed an application requesting the Western Cape High Court to cancel the visa of convicted arms trafficker and war criminal Augustinus Maria Kouwenhoven. Kouwenhoven…

Staff Writer4 December 2019

SALC Submissions on the South African National Health Insurance Bill (NHI) Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesSouth AfricaSubmissions

SALC Submissions on the South African National Health Insurance Bill (NHI)

These submissions detail the Southern Africa Litigation Centre’s (SALC’s) concerns that the National Health Insurance Bill, 2019, removes existing forms of access to healthcare services to certain categories of foreign…

Staff Writer28 November 2019

Media statement: SALC is deeply concerned about the worsening state of the health crisis in Zimbabwe Equality Rights HealthZimbabwe

Media statement: SALC is deeply concerned about the worsening state of the health crisis in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is bearing the brunt of the worst economic crisis in a decade, with shortages of foreign currency, fuel, power and medicines. The decay of Zimbabwe’s economy is noticeably reflected…

Staff Writer28 November 2019

Statement condemning the actions of the Zimbabwe republic police for the assault on Douglas Coltart Criminal Justice Police AbuseZimbabwe

Statement condemning the actions of the Zimbabwe republic police for the assault on Douglas Coltart

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) is extremely concerned by reports of alleged serious human rights violations and the continued commission of atrocities by the Zimbabwe Republic Police. In particular,…

Staff Writer27 November 2019

High Court decision affirms human rights of transgender people in Zimbabwe Equality RightsEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights NewsZimbabwe

High Court decision affirms human rights of transgender people in Zimbabwe

Opinion Piece first published on 26 November 2019 on mg.co.za In 2014, Ricky Nathanson was arrested and charged with criminal nuisance after she used a toilet for women. In a…

Staff Writer26 November 2019

SALC Policy brief: The demise of a legitimate Southern African Regional Court Research Reports & Policy BriefsSADC

SALC Policy brief: The demise of a legitimate Southern African Regional Court

This weeks marks the 14 anniversary of the inauguration of the SADC Tribunal. The actions of the SADC Summit to suspend the Tribunal was  a retrogressive step in the promotion…

Staff Writer21 November 2019

Statement calling for the resurrection of a Southern African regional court SADC

Statement calling for the resurrection of a Southern African regional court

On 18 November 2005, the Southern African Development Community Tribunal (SADC Tribunal) was inaugurated. It was established through a protocol which created a regional court to hear disputes of not…

Staff Writer20 November 2019

Zimbabwe High Court awards damages in ground breaking judgment in favour of Ricky Nathanson, a transgender woman and activist Equality RightsEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights NewsZimbabwe

Zimbabwe High Court awards damages in ground breaking judgment in favour of Ricky Nathanson, a transgender woman and activist

Zimbabwe High Court awards damages in ground breaking judgment in favour of Ricky Nathanson, a transgender woman and activist. The Bulawayo High Court in Zimbabwe delivered a scathing judgment against…

Staff Writer18 November 2019

Zimbabwe: Action for damages of unlawful arrest of a transgender person Equality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ Completed CasesZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Action for damages of unlawful arrest of a transgender person

Background On 16 January 2014, Plaintiff Ricky Nathanson was arrested and taken to Bulawayo Central Police Station. The two men who called the police initially tried to extort money from…

Staff Writer15 November 2019

SALC Oral Statement: At the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights on the Human Rights Situation in Zimbabwe and Malawi Civic RightsCriminal JusticeInternational JusticeSADC

SALC Oral Statement: At the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights on the Human Rights Situation in Zimbabwe and Malawi

On the 24 October 2019, SALC delivered an oral statement at the the 65th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights. Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is in crisis…

Staff Writer30 October 2019

Tanzania Court of Appeal upholds ban on child marriage Equality RightsEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenTanzania

Tanzania Court of Appeal upholds ban on child marriage

23 October 2019 - Today, the Tanzania Court of Appeal issued a judgment in the case of Attorney General V Rebeca Gyumi dismissing an appeal filed by the State against…

Staff Writer23 October 2019

Eswatini: Summary of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act Equality Rights WomenEswatiniPlain Language PublicationsTraining Tools

Eswatini: Summary of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act

The Rights4All Project, under its My Body My Rights Campaign, published a booklet which summarises the provisions of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act of 2018. The booklet is…

Staff Writer18 October 2019

SALC shadow report-Zimbabwe’s Combined 11th-15th Periodic Report (65th Ordinary Session, Oct-Nov 2019) Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights ExpressionEquality RightsEquality Rights HealthInternational JusticeInternational Justice TortureSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Climate JusticeSubmissionsZimbabwe

SALC shadow report-Zimbabwe’s Combined 11th-15th Periodic Report (65th Ordinary Session, Oct-Nov 2019)

Zimbabwe's 11th-15th Combined Report to the African Commission on Human and People's Rights 65th Session (Oct-Nov 2019) Submission by Southern Africa Litigation Centre October 2019 Introduction Zimbabwe adopted a new…

Staff Writer15 October 2019

SALC seeks cancellation of visa of convicted Dutch war criminal and fugitive from justice, Guus Kouvenhowen International JusticeInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

SALC seeks cancellation of visa of convicted Dutch war criminal and fugitive from justice, Guus Kouvenhowen

SALC has filed an application to cancel the visa of convicted Dutch war criminal and fugitive from justice, Guus Kouvenhowen. The Southern Africa Litigation Centre has filed an application requesting…

Staff Writer14 October 2019