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MEDIA ADVISORY: STATE SEEKS TO STOP ENFORCEMENT OF COURT ORDER TO PROVIDE ARVS TO FOREIGN PRISONERS Criminal JusticeCriminal Justice Prison ReformEquality Rights Health

MEDIA ADVISORY: STATE SEEKS TO STOP ENFORCEMENT OF COURT ORDER TO PROVIDE ARVS TO FOREIGN PRISONERS

Gaborone –The Gaborone High Court will tomorrow hear an urgent application brought by the Attorney General who seeks to stay the execution of an order granted by the High Court in…

Staff Writer7 April 2015

Don’t be slaves of precedent, judges told ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights DisabilityEquality Rights Disability ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesSADCSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights News

Don’t be slaves of precedent, judges told

The Patriot 18 January 2015 High Court of Botswana Judge Key Dingake has called on judges and magistrates to use their judicial powers to ensure that the rights of vulnerable…

Staff Writer1 April 2015

Lawyers, rights groups rally around author of ‘Blood diamonds’, facing jail 31 March 2015 AngolaCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Resources

Lawyers, rights groups rally around author of ‘Blood diamonds’, facing jail 31 March 2015

All Africa New York — The Southern Africa Litigation Centre, Amnesty International and over a dozen other human rights organisations including the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights have…

Staff Writer1 April 2015

Courts urged to protect vulnerable groups Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenMalawi

Courts urged to protect vulnerable groups

Blantyre, March 25: The Judiciary has been urged to interpret and fashion the law to ensure fulfillment of principle of equality on the various vulnerable groups in the country. Chief Justice…

Staff Writer25 March 2015

Fighting TB with prisoners’ rights ArticlesCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsCriminal Justice Prison ReformCriminal Justice Prison Reform ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsSADC

Fighting TB with prisoners’ rights

Thought Leader By Annabel Raw Today is World Tuberculosis Day, commemorating the discovery of the cause of the disease in 1882. Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease with traces in…

Staff Writer24 March 2015

Court set up intimidatory-judiciary Criminal Justice Prison ReformCriminal Justice ResourcesEquality Rights DisabilityEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenMalawi

Court set up intimidatory-judiciary

Malawi Nation 22 March 2015 The court set up and the way proceedings are conducted is intimidatory to people, including witnesses, Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda has said. The Chief Justice…

Staff Writer24 March 2015

Women consent to sex Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenMalawi

Women consent to sex

Malawi Nation 22 March 2015 A Supreme Court judge has said courts should not regard silence of a girl or woman as consent to sexual intercourse. The judge, Lovemore Chikopa,…

Staff Writer24 March 2015

STATEMENT: THE SOUTHERN AFRICA LITIGATION CENTRE CONDEMNS THE USE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AGAINST SWAZI LAWYER, THULANI MASEKO Civic RightsCriminal JusticeEswatini

STATEMENT: THE SOUTHERN AFRICA LITIGATION CENTRE CONDEMNS THE USE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AGAINST SWAZI LAWYER, THULANI MASEKO

Johannesburg: The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) expresses its deepest concern at reports from Swaziland that Thulani Maseko, a prominent human rights lawyer convicted of contempt of court and serving a…

Staff Writer23 March 2015

OPEN LETTER FROM HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREE PRESS GROUPS CALLING FOR CHARGES AGAINST RAFAEL MARQUES DE MORAIS TO BE DROPPED AngolaCriminal Justice

OPEN LETTER FROM HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREE PRESS GROUPS CALLING FOR CHARGES AGAINST RAFAEL MARQUES DE MORAIS TO BE DROPPED

Journalist Rafael Marques de Morais wrote a book, and for that, he could go to jail. His book, published in Portugal in 2011, alleges serious human rights violations committed by…

Staff Writer23 March 2015

What’s the heavy-handed crackdown on free speech in Swaziland? ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights NewsEswatini

What’s the heavy-handed crackdown on free speech in Swaziland?

Thought Leader, Mail & Guardian 18 March 2015 By Caroline James Remembering Thulani Maseko and Bheki Makhubu — one year on… Can you remember what you were doing 365 days…

Staff Writer18 March 2015

JOINT STATEMENT-ANGOLA: DETAINED ACTIVISTS MUST BE IMMEDIATELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY FREED AngolaCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Expression

JOINT STATEMENT-ANGOLA: DETAINED ACTIVISTS MUST BE IMMEDIATELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY FREED

The Angolan authorities must immediately and unconditionally release two human rights defenders who were detained solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in the country’s…

Staff Writer18 March 2015

Discussion on discrimination against women in traditional leadership in the African agenda Equality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenLesotho

Discussion on discrimination against women in traditional leadership in the African agenda

11 February 2015 On Wednesday, 11 February 2015, Muluka Miti-Drummond (SALC Regional Advocacy Director) and Senate Masupha from Lesotho were interviewed at Talk at Nine by Aubrey Masango following a joint…

Staff Writer26 February 2015

REGIONAL RIGHTS BODY REPORTS MALAWI TO THE UN Equality Rights WomenMalawi

REGIONAL RIGHTS BODY REPORTS MALAWI TO THE UN

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has reported Malawi to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women, raising concerns over the criminalisation of…

Staff Writer15 February 2015

Zimbabwe: Protecting HIV-positive employees from unlawful dismissal Equality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health Completed CasesZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Protecting HIV-positive employees from unlawful dismissal

SALC worked with Women and Law in Southern Africa’s Zimbabwe chapter to challenge the dismissal of a nurse from her employment due to her alleged failure to disclose her HIV status. The…

Staff Writer11 February 2015

Malawi shadow report: Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenMalawiSubmissions

Malawi shadow report: Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has submitted a shadow report on Malawi to the Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (the Committee). Between 26…

Staff Writer10 February 2015

MEDIA ADVISORY: ZIMBABWEAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO DECIDE ON THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF HIV STATUS Equality Rights HealthZimbabwe

MEDIA ADVISORY: ZIMBABWEAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO DECIDE ON THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF HIV STATUS

Harare–On Wednesday 11 February 2015, the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe will hear arguments on a case concerning an HIV-positive nurse who is taking her employer to court for violating her…

Staff Writer10 February 2015

NEWS RELEASE: BOTSWANA HIGH COURT UPHOLDS CHILDREN’S BEST INTERESTS IN ADOPTION BotswanaEquality Rights

NEWS RELEASE: BOTSWANA HIGH COURT UPHOLDS CHILDREN’S BEST INTERESTS IN ADOPTION

Gaborone–On Monday, 2 February, the Botswana High Court delivered judgment in a constitutional challenge to the Adoption of Children Act. The Act allowed that a child who is born out…

Staff Writer2 February 2015

Botswana: Ending discrimination in adoption BotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed Cases

Botswana: Ending discrimination in adoption

SALC supported a challenge to the Adoption of Children Act in Botswana, which permitted the adoption of a child born out of wedlock without the consent of the child’s father, regardless of…

Staff Writer2 February 2015

Civil society in action: Pursuing domestic accountability for international crimes International JusticeResourcesSeminars and Conferences

Civil society in action: Pursuing domestic accountability for international crimes

Drawing on the outcomes of the Conference, “Civil Society In Action: Pursuing Domestic Accountability for International Crimes”, organised by SALC with the support of Trust Africa, this publication canvases successful…

Staff Writer24 January 2015

Botswana gay rights group to fight gov’t appeal on recognition BotswanaEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights Resources

Botswana gay rights group to fight gov’t appeal on recognition

Star Africa 21 January 2015 The Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO) on Wednesday vowed to fight the government’s decision to appeal against a court ruling authorising the registration…

Staff Writer22 January 2015