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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

Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional Criminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice ResourcesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesMalawi

Malawi High Court Rules Mandatory HIV Testing is Unconstitutional

By Anneke Meerkotter, Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and Ian Southey-Swartz, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) In 2009, a group of women, presumed to be sex workers, was arrested as…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

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Malawi: Mandatory HIV testing of women

On 10 March 2011, eleven women from Mwanza, Malawi, filed an application in the Blantyre High Court challenging their subjection to mandatory HIV tests, the admission of the HIV test…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT DECLARES MANDATORY HIV TESTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL Equality Rights HealthMalawi

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT DECLARES MANDATORY HIV TESTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL

NEWS RELEASE: MALAWI HIGH COURT SAYS MANDATORY HIV TESTING VIOLATES CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Blantyre, 20 May 2015 – Today, Justice Dorothy nyaKaunda Kamanga, handed down judgment in the Blantyre High Court in…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

Swazi lawyer in solitary confinement Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights ResourcesEswatini

Swazi lawyer in solitary confinement

IOL Manzini – Thulani Maseko, the Swazi human rights lawyer in prison for two years for criticising King Mswati’s judicial system, is entering his second week of a three-week isolation…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case Criminal Justice ResourcesEquality Rights HealthMalawi

Malawi court declares mandatory HIV testing illegal: Sex workers win case

20 May 2015 Malawi High Court judge Justice nyaKaunda Kamanga on Wednesday ruled that the police and the medical personnel violated the rights of 11 Mwanza women by subjecting them…

Staff Writer20 May 2015

NEWS RELEASE: ZAMBIA HIGH COURT CONFIRMS ACQUITTAL OF HIV ACTIVIST, PAUL KASONKOMONA Civic RightsEquality Rights HealthZambia

NEWS RELEASE: ZAMBIA HIGH COURT CONFIRMS ACQUITTAL OF HIV ACTIVIST, PAUL KASONKOMONA

Lusaka, 15 May 2015 – Today, Justice Judy Mulongoti confirmed the 2014 ruling of His Worship Lameck Ng’ambi in which he acquitted human rights activist, Paul Kasonkomona. In April 2013, Kasonkomona was arrested after…

Staff Writer15 May 2015

NEWS RELEASE: SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN, WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS GROUPS CALL ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT TO STOP ARRESTS OF “UNDOCUMENTED” FOREIGN NATIONALS AND ITS STIGMATISATION OF FOREIGN NATIONALS Equality Rights WomenSouth Africa

NEWS RELEASE: SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN, WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S RIGHTS GROUPS CALL ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT TO STOP ARRESTS OF “UNDOCUMENTED” FOREIGN NATIONALS AND ITS STIGMATISATION OF FOREIGN NATIONALS

Over the last few weeks, the South African government has deployed large numbers of police and the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to conduct a series of raids in…

Staff Writer14 May 2015

ORGANISATIONS SEEK HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE INTERVENTION REGARDING FORCED AND COERCED STERILISATION IN NAMIBIA Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights WomenZambia

ORGANISATIONS SEEK HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE INTERVENTION REGARDING FORCED AND COERCED STERILISATION IN NAMIBIA

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and four other human rights organisations, concerned with the forced and coerced sterilisation of women living with HIV/AIDS in Namibia, have requested the UN…

Staff Writer13 May 2015

ORGANISATIONS SEEK HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE INTERVENTION REGARDING FORCED AND COERCED STERILISATION IN NAMIBIA Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights WomenNamibiaResources

ORGANISATIONS SEEK HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE INTERVENTION REGARDING FORCED AND COERCED STERILISATION IN NAMIBIA

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and four other human rights organisations, concerned with the forced and coerced sterilisation of women living with HIV/AIDS in Namibia, have requested the UN…

Staff Writer13 May 2015

ANGOLA: FABRICATED CHARGES AND CONTINUED DETENTION OF ACTIVISTS A MOCKERY OF JUSTICE AngolaCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Expression

ANGOLA: FABRICATED CHARGES AND CONTINUED DETENTION OF ACTIVISTS A MOCKERY OF JUSTICE

The continued detention of two human rights defenders held on fabricated charges of ‘crimes against the security of the state’ is a blatant oppression of freedom of expression and a…

Staff Writer13 May 2015

SADC TRIBUNAL PETITION International JusticeZimbabwe

SADC TRIBUNAL PETITION

The leaders of southern Africa are pulling apart a regional court which they put in place to protect the rights of individuals in the region – the Southern Africa Development Community…

Staff Writer11 May 2015