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Positive reinforcement: Advocating for international criminal justice in Africa

SALC is pleased to announce the release of Positive Reinforcement: Advocating for International Criminal Justice in Africa. It is intended that Positive Reinforcement be a resource, guide and advocacy tool for African civil…

Staff Writer8 May 2013

SWAZILAND HIGH COURT RESORTS TO JURISPRUDENTIAL GYMNASTICS TO JUSTIFY CONVICTION OF EDITOR Resources

SWAZILAND HIGH COURT RESORTS TO JURISPRUDENTIAL GYMNASTICS TO JUSTIFY CONVICTION OF EDITOR

Using trumped up criminal charges to silence dissent has become a worrying trend in southern Africa. Two weeks ago the Zambian police arrested an activist on an outdated vagrancy-related charge when he…

Anneke Meerkotter23 April 2013

DELEGATES AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CONVENTION IN ZAMBIA LOSE THE PLOT ON HUMAN RIGHTS Resources

DELEGATES AT THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CONVENTION IN ZAMBIA LOSE THE PLOT ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Those working in the human rights sector often take it for granted that human rights are universal, and that everyone surely appreciates that they apply to ALL human beings. We…

Anneke Meerkotter17 April 2013

LEGABIBO appeals to High Court ArticlesBotswanaCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights News

LEGABIBO appeals to High Court

Daily News Fourteen applicants comprising homosexuals and those into dual sex relationships who want a group to be registered in terms of the Societies Act have filed a case against…

Staff Writer11 April 2013

When democracy fails: Gays are Zambians too! ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsZambia

When democracy fails: Gays are Zambians too!

The Lusaka Times The arrest of human rights activist Paul Kasonkomona deserves condemnation by all Zambians of good will. If speaking in favor of gay rights is a crime, then…

Staff Writer10 April 2013

Arrest of activist amid anti-gay rhetoric ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsZambia

Arrest of activist amid anti-gay rhetoric

Polity 10 April 2013 By Anneke Meerkotter On Sunday 7 April 2013, Zambian police officers arrested Paul Kasonkomona at the gate of Muvi TV, a private television broadcaster in Zambia.…

Anneke Meerkotter10 April 2013

Zambian police must immediately release activist Civic RightsCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights NewsZambia

Zambian police must immediately release activist

ZAMBIAN POLICE MUST IMMEDIATELY RELEASE UNLAWFULLY DETAINED HIV AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST, SAY SALC AND OSISA Johannesburg, 10 April 2013 – The Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) and the Open Society…

Staff Writer10 April 2013

ARREST OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST AMID INCREASED ANTI-GAY RHETORIC IN ZAMBIA Resources

ARREST OF GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST AMID INCREASED ANTI-GAY RHETORIC IN ZAMBIA

On Sunday 7 April 2013, Zambian police officers arrested Paul Kasonkomona at the gate of Muvi TV, a private television broadcaster in Zambia. Mr Kasonkomona, a well-known HIV and human rights…

Staff Writer10 April 2013

LEGABIBO challenges refusal to register organisation ArticlesBotswanaCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights News

LEGABIBO challenges refusal to register organisation

Weekend Post Fourteen individuals recently filed a case before the High Court, asking the court to review the decision by the Director of Civil and National Registration and the Minister…

Staff Writer6 April 2013

Botswana’s health bill worries regional rights body ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights News

Botswana’s health bill worries regional rights body

Sunday Standard 24 March 2013 The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has punched holes in Botswana’s Public Health Bill, warning it might result in human rights violations. The SALC has raised…

Staff Writer3 April 2013

SALC HOSTS SENSITISATION MEETING OF SADC MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ON CERVICAL CANCER Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights WomenResources

SALC HOSTS SENSITISATION MEETING OF SADC MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ON CERVICAL CANCER

SADC Members of Parliament sitting on the SADC PF HIV Committee met in Johannesburg, South Africa on the 1st of March 2013 to discuss the availability of services and policies…

Staff Writer26 March 2013

Beatrice Mtetwa versus the Zimbabwean police Criminal Justice ResourcesZimbabwe

Beatrice Mtetwa versus the Zimbabwean police

You know this has to be done, somebody has to do it, and why shouldn’t it be you?” That is Zimbabwe’s most prominent human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa’s matter-of-fact explanation…

Staff Writer19 March 2013

ZIMBABWE VOTES FOR NEW CONSTITUTION Civic RightsResourcesZimbabwe

ZIMBABWE VOTES FOR NEW CONSTITUTION

On 16 March 2013, Zimbabwe held a referendum on whether to accept the draft COPAC Constitution. Initial reports suggest that an overwhelming majority of the approximately two million voters who…

Staff Writer18 March 2013

ZIMBABWEAN CASES IN SOUTH AFRICA’S COURT ROOMS International JusticeZimbabwe

ZIMBABWEAN CASES IN SOUTH AFRICA’S COURT ROOMS

In a recent opinion piece – South African Courts’ Zimbabwean Problem – that appeared in the Daily Maverick, I looked at a number of  Zimbabwe related cases that have been or…

Staff Writer18 March 2013

Ghost of the SADC tribunal haunts Zimbabwe in South Africa’s Constitutional Court ArticlesSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsSouth AfricaZimbabwe

Ghost of the SADC tribunal haunts Zimbabwe in South Africa’s Constitutional Court

A group of Zimbabwean farmers dispossessed of their land in Zimbabwe’s controversial land redistribution policy will face off against the Zimbabwean government in the South African Constitutional Court today. This…

Staff Writer28 February 2013

CALL FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE ON BOTSWANA PUBLIC HEALTH BILL BotswanaEquality Rights HealthResources

CALL FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE ON BOTSWANA PUBLIC HEALTH BILL

On 22 February 2013, the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS; the AIDS and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa; the Southern Africa Litigation Centre and the HIV and AIDS Programme of…

Staff Writer27 February 2013

South Africa must come clean on extra-legal renditions ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesSouth Africa

South Africa must come clean on extra-legal renditions

The Business Day By Nicole Fritz THE Oscar-nominated film, Zero Dark Thirty, depicting the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) hunt for Osama bin Laden, has generated fierce controversy for suggesting that…

Staff Writer27 February 2013

Zimbabwe: Police attempt to raid peace project offices at night ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Police attempt to raid peace project offices at night

SW Radio By Tichaona Sibanda On Monday night police in Harare tried to search the offices of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, six hours after they had earlier stormed the same…

Staff Writer12 February 2013

ZIMBABWE’S LATEST DRAFT CONSTITUTION – BETTER THAN EXPECTED BUT FAR FROM IDEAL Civic RightsZimbabwe

ZIMBABWE’S LATEST DRAFT CONSTITUTION – BETTER THAN EXPECTED BUT FAR FROM IDEAL

In September 2012, debates around the draft Zimbabwean Constitution reached a deadlock, with ZANU-PF publishing an alternative version to that put forward by COPAC in July 2012.  Since then progress has been made and a…

Staff Writer29 January 2013

SADC Tribunal paid the price for threatening States’ authority ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights NewsMozambiqueSADCSouth AfricaTanzaniaZimbabwe

SADC Tribunal paid the price for threatening States’ authority

The Business Day TANZANIAN president Jakaya Kikwete is said to have described it as a monster that will “devour us all”. Now the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal —…

Staff Writer28 January 2013