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Jacob Zuma to be questioned on court violation International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

Jacob Zuma to be questioned on court violation

The Business Day THE constitutional crisis caused by the government’s flouting of a court ruling ordering the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is to be taken up by opposition…

Staff Writer17 June 2015

Group wants Sudan’s Omar Al-Bashir arrested during AU Summit International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

Group wants Sudan’s Omar Al-Bashir arrested during AU Summit

CNN 14 June 2015 (CNN) The International Criminal Court’s six-year quest to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and genocide took a step closer to reality…

Staff Writer17 June 2015

Bid by Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan to avoid arrest is tested in South Africa International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

Bid by Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan to avoid arrest is tested in South Africa

14 June 2015 New York Times JOHANNESBURG — As the only head of state wanted by the International Criminal Court on genocide charges, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan had…

Staff Writer17 June 2015

AU Summit speculates on Bashir International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

AU Summit speculates on Bashir

IOL 12 June 2015 Johannesburg – Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir continued to keep everyone guessing on Friday about whether he would pitch up in South Africa for the African…

Staff Writer17 June 2015

NEWS RELEASE: AFRICAN UNION SHOULD CALL ON SOUTH AFRICA TO PROTECT REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS FROM XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS Criminal JusticeEquality RightsSouth Africa

NEWS RELEASE: AFRICAN UNION SHOULD CALL ON SOUTH AFRICA TO PROTECT REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS FROM XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS

The African Union (AU) should call on the South African authorities to provide a long-term security guarantee for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers living in the country, Amnesty International and…

Staff Writer12 June 2015

AU Summit abuzz over Sudan’s Bashir International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

AU Summit abuzz over Sudan’s Bashir

IOL 11 June 2015 Johannesburg – A South African human rights organisation is preparing to seek an arrest warrant for Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir because they suspect he could arrive…

Staff Writer12 June 2015

OPEN LETTER TO THE AFRICAN UNION ON THE RESURGENCE OF XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF THE AU SUMMIT IN SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG, JUNE 2015 Criminal JusticeEquality Rights

OPEN LETTER TO THE AFRICAN UNION ON THE RESURGENCE OF XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF THE AU SUMMIT IN SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG, JUNE 2015

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and over 100 other civil society organisations (CSOs) throughout the African continent today presented an open letter to the African Union (AU), renewing their…

Staff Writer10 June 2015

PUBLIC INTEREST LAW GATHERING: A COMING TOGETHER OF PUBLIC INTEREST LAW PRACTITIONERS IN SOUTH AFRICA Criminal JusticeSouth Africa

PUBLIC INTEREST LAW GATHERING: A COMING TOGETHER OF PUBLIC INTEREST LAW PRACTITIONERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Date: 23-24 July 2015 Venue: University of the Witwatersrand, School of Law Topics to be explored include: Conflicts of Interest Recent Strategic Litigation on the Promotion of Access to Information…

Staff Writer9 June 2015

NEWS RELEASE: BONELA CALLS ON FOREIGN PRISONERS IN NEED OF ARVS TO COME FORWARD Criminal Justice

NEWS RELEASE: BONELA CALLS ON FOREIGN PRISONERS IN NEED OF ARVS TO COME FORWARD

Gaborone, 8 June 2015 – The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA) is calling on HIV-positive foreign prisoners in Botswana in need of ARV treatment to make contact…

Staff Writer8 June 2015

Concerns grow for detained Angolan activist AngolaCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights ResourcesEquality Rights Health

Concerns grow for detained Angolan activist

2 June 2015 In Angola, there is growing concern about a detained rights activist’s health. José Marcos Mavungo was arrested in March for alleged crimes against the security of the…

Staff Writer3 June 2015

Swaziland court orders release of human rights lawyer and editor Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights ResourcesEswatini

Swaziland court orders release of human rights lawyer and editor

The New Age 30 June 2015 The Swaziland Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release from prison of human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko and magazine editor Bheki Makhubu who have…

Staff Writer1 June 2015

Sex workers, ARVs and the irrationality of excluding foreigners ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights News

Sex workers, ARVs and the irrationality of excluding foreigners

In recent weeks, the Government of Botswana has announced plans to provide anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy to all sex workers regardless of their CD4 counts. The commendable aim of the initiative, as described by the…

Annabel Raw26 May 2015

The challenge of freedom of expression in Africa ArticlesCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsSADC

The challenge of freedom of expression in Africa

By Anneke Meerkotter and Ian Swartz In many countries, whether your freedom of expression is respected or not continues to depend on the views you hold. The prosecution of Zambian…

Staff Writer26 May 2015

Jailed Swazi activists in legal limbo Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights ResourcesEswatini

Jailed Swazi activists in legal limbo

The Mail & Guardian 25 May 2015 It is now over a year since the imprisonment of two Swazi activists — and they have still not been granted bail. Around…

Staff Writer26 May 2015

SA obligated to arrest Sudan’s president International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

SA obligated to arrest Sudan’s president

22 May 2015 SABC News The Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) says it has written an open letter to the South African ministers of Justice and of International Relations and…

Staff Writer25 May 2015

Polokwane Mayor wants truth about disappearance of MK sister International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice TortureSouth Africa

Polokwane Mayor wants truth about disappearance of MK sister

Times Live 20 May 2022 The sister of an Umkhonto weSizwe courier who disappeared in the 1980s has filed an application before the Pretoria high court to force a formal…

Staff Writer25 May 2015

Mayor demands inquest into sister’s 1983 death International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice TortureSouth Africa

Mayor demands inquest into sister’s 1983 death

Mail & Guardian 21 May 2015 TRC records show that Umkhonto weSizwe member Nokuthula Simelane was tortured on a North West farm and believed killed. Thirty-two years after her disappearance,…

Staff Writer22 May 2015

‘SA obliged to arrest Bashir’ International Justice ResourcesInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

‘SA obliged to arrest Bashir’

IOL Johannesburg – Rule of law champions have reminded the South African government that it had an obligation to arrest Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir if he came to South Africa…

Staff Writer22 May 2015

Malawi High Court to deliver landmark ruling on HIV mandatory ruling Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenMalawi

Malawi High Court to deliver landmark ruling on HIV mandatory ruling

19 May 2015 The Malawi High Court will on Wednesday deliver landmark ruling on HIV and AIDS mandatory testing in a case of State versus Mwanza Police, District Hospital Ministry…

Staff Writer21 May 2015

Malawi sex workers win forced HIV test case Criminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice ResourcesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesMalawi

Malawi sex workers win forced HIV test case

The Nation The High Court in Blantyre yesterday ruled in favour of 11 sex workers who were subjected to a mandatory HIV test in Malawi’s southern district of Mwanza in…

Staff Writer21 May 2015