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Botswana Prisons: Foreign inmates win case for free HIV treatment

BBC News 26 August 2015 Botswana’s court of appeal has upheld a ruling that foreign prisoners should receive free treatment for HIV/Aids, rights lawyers say. Foreign prisoners were previously expected…

Staff Writer27 August 2015

BOTSWANA; GOVERNMENT LOSES ARV CASE Criminal Justice

BOTSWANA; GOVERNMENT LOSES ARV CASE

26 August 2015   Government has lost an appeal in which they were challenging the high court ruling which ordered them to provide foreign inmates with ARVs, as  they said…

Staff Writer27 August 2015

BOTSWANA COURT ORDERS GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE FOREIGN INMATES WITH ARV TREATMENT BotswanaCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice Prison ReformEquality Rights Health

BOTSWANA COURT ORDERS GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE FOREIGN INMATES WITH ARV TREATMENT

Global Post 26 August 2015 GABORONE, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) — The marathon case in which foreign inmates with HIV were suing the government of Botswana for refusing to provide them…

Staff Writer27 August 2015

Botswana: Securing access to HIV treatment for prisoners BotswanaCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice Completed CasesCriminal Justice Criminal Prison Reform Completed CasesCriminal Justice Prison ReformEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health Completed Cases

Botswana: Securing access to HIV treatment for prisoners

SALC worked with the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and AIDS (BONELA) to challenge the Botswana government’s policy of refusing HIV treatment to non-citizen prisoners. Citizen prisoners were entitled to…

Staff Writer26 August 2015

NEWS RELEASE: VICTORY FOR HIV-POSITIVE FOREIGN PRISONERS IN BOTSWANA COURT OF APPEAL Criminal Justice

NEWS RELEASE: VICTORY FOR HIV-POSITIVE FOREIGN PRISONERS IN BOTSWANA COURT OF APPEAL

Gaborone–On Wednesday, 26 August 2015, the Botswana Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal against a 2014 decision of the High Court, affirming the government’s legal obligation to provide foreign prisoners…

Staff Writer26 August 2015

SALC Litigation Manual: Litigating cases involving sexual and reproductive health rights Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesLitigation Manuals

SALC Litigation Manual: Litigating cases involving sexual and reproductive health rights

This manual is a resource for private and public lawyers in southern Africa who are litigating cases in domestic courts challenging laws, policies and practices involving sexual and reproductive rights.…

Staff Writer23 August 2015

Ian Khama has changed lives of women and girls BotswanaEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenSADC

Ian Khama has changed lives of women and girls

Daily Maverick 20 August 2015 The economic circumstances of women in Southern African Development Community (SADC) states have been especially slow to change as women and girls continue to experience…

Staff Writer20 August 2015

Lesotho PM under fire at SADC Summit Civic Rights Judicial IndependenceCivic Rights ResourcesLesothoRule of LawSADC

Lesotho PM under fire at SADC Summit

IOL News 18 August 2015 Gaborone – Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili came under fire from his fellow leaders in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) at its summit here…

Staff Writer19 August 2015

SADC child model law takes shape Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenSouth Africa

SADC child model law takes shape

The Namibian JOHANNESBURG – A group of experts representing key institutions working on policy and legal issues related to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), children’s rights, women’s rights…

Staff Writer19 August 2015

REFLECTIONS ON THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW GATHERING Civic RightsResources

REFLECTIONS ON THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW GATHERING

The fifth annual Public Interest Law Gathering (PILG) was held at the University of the Witwatersrand last month, and provided South African lawyers and civil society with an opportunity to reflect…

Staff Writer18 August 2015

Court reserves judgment in government’s Bashir application International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

Court reserves judgment in government’s Bashir application

The Citizen 14 August 2015 A full bench of the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has reserved judgment in government’s application for leave to appeal the high court’s ruling…

Staff Writer17 August 2015

COALITION FOR AN EFFECTIVE SADC TRIBUNAL CALLS ON HEADS OF STATE TO REINSTATING THE SADC TRIBUNAL Civic RightsSADC

COALITION FOR AN EFFECTIVE SADC TRIBUNAL CALLS ON HEADS OF STATE TO REINSTATING THE SADC TRIBUNAL

Issued by:        The Coalition for an Effective SADC Tribunal Date:               14 August 2015 On the eve of the SADC Heads of State Summit on Sunday 16th August the Coalition for…

Staff Writer15 August 2015

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National Women’s Day

The Star Early Edition The 9th of August marked National Women’s day. It is the day that 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings in 1956 to protest pass…

Staff Writer13 August 2015

Grave concern about Lesotho torture Civic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights ResourcesLesothoRule of Law

Grave concern about Lesotho torture

IOL 11 August 2015 Johannesburg – A leading human rights group on Tuesday warned of “grave human rights concerns” – including allegations of widespread torture of detained soldiers – in…

Staff Writer12 August 2015

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Africa rulings move LGBT rights forward

Jurist By Anneke Meekotter & Graeme Reidof 4 August 2015 JURIST Guest Columnists Anneke Meerkotter of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre and Graeme Reidof Human Rights Watch discuss how recent…

Staff Writer5 August 2015

Court Diary: Attorney General and Others v Tapela and Others Criminal Justice

Court Diary: Attorney General and Others v Tapela and Others

On 23 July 2015, the Botswana Court of Appeal heard oral arguments in an appeal against a High Court decision of August 2014 in which the government’s policy refusing antiretroviral…

Staff Writer29 July 2015

COURT DIARY: ATTORNEY GENERAL AND OTHERS V TAPELA AND OTHERS Criminal Justice

COURT DIARY: ATTORNEY GENERAL AND OTHERS V TAPELA AND OTHERS

On 23 July 2015, the Botswana Court of Appeal heard oral arguments in an appeal against a High Court decision of August 2014 in which the government’s policy refusing antiretroviral…

Staff Writer29 July 2015

Court frees jailed Swazi activists Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights ResourcesEswatini

Court frees jailed Swazi activists

Rhe Mail & Guardian 16 July 2015 Two “political prisoners” were granted bail in Swaziland on Tuesday after being detained on terrorism charges for more than a year. The president…

Staff Writer28 July 2015

SOUTH AFRICA: EU MPS GRILL SA LAWMAKERS ON ‘ESCAPE’ International JusticeSouth Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: EU MPS GRILL SA LAWMAKERS ON ‘ESCAPE’

South Africa should have prevented Omar Al-Bashir from leaving the country, a delegation from the EU’s parliament said this week –  but the ANC maintains this country’s failure to arrest…

Staff Writer27 July 2015

Human rights leader berates Adam Habib for views Al-Bashir International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

Human rights leader berates Adam Habib for views Al-Bashir

24 July 2015 Times Lives The former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called out Wits University vice-chancellor Adam Habib for his comments about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and…

Staff Writer27 July 2015