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Tackling cervical cancer: improving access to cervical cancer services for women in Southern Africa Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenSADC

Tackling cervical cancer: improving access to cervical cancer services for women in Southern Africa

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre recently released a report, Tackling Cervical Cancer: Improving Access to Cervical Cancer Services for Women in Southern Africa, addressing the state of cervical cancer services in the…

Staff Writer31 October 2012

‘Let’s fight for justice delivery’ ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesLesothoSADC

‘Let’s fight for justice delivery’

Daily Mail THE Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) is calling on the women movement in Africa to champion justice delivery because of the unequal status of women before law in…

Staff Writer31 October 2012

Thousands of cervical cancer deaths in Southern Africa could be prevented with minimal government action, says new research Equality RightsEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenSADC

Thousands of cervical cancer deaths in Southern Africa could be prevented with minimal government action, says new research

THOUSANDS OF CERVICAL CANCER DEATHS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA COULD BE PREVENTED WITH MINIMAL GOVERNMENT ACTION, SAYS NEW RESEARCH Johannesburg, 31 October – Governments in southern Africa must implement comprehensive policies on…

Staff Writer31 October 2012

Rwanda’s General Nyamwasa in South Africa refugee case ArticlesDR CongoInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesSouth Africa

Rwanda’s General Nyamwasa in South Africa refugee case

  BBC News The rights groups want Lt-Gen Nyamwasa to face trial in France or Spain. Two human rights groups have asked a South African court to revoke the refugee…

Staff Writer30 October 2012

Rwanda’s General Nyamwasa and the politics of granting refugee status in South Africa ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesSADCSouth Africa

Rwanda’s General Nyamwasa and the politics of granting refugee status in South Africa

The Daily Maverick South Africa has thus far stubbornly resisted international pressure to extradite the former Rwandan military strongman, General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa. That might change soon, however. Apart from…

Staff Writer30 October 2012

Rights groups want Nyamwasa’s refugee status revoked ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesSouth Africa

Rights groups want Nyamwasa’s refugee status revoked

  Lt Gen Faustin Nyamwasa during a recent court appearance in Johannessburg in the case of those who tried to kill him.   The London Evening Post Two human rights…

Staff Writer30 October 2012

Judgment reserved in Nyamwasa’s case ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesSouth Africa

Judgment reserved in Nyamwasa’s case

Judgment has been reserved in the admissibility of a temporary asylum-seeker’s permit of Rwandan general and suspected war criminal, Kayumba Nyamwasa as evidence in a case in court. The case…

Staff Writer30 October 2012

Rwandan’s refugee status challenged ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesSouth Africa

Rwandan’s refugee status challenged

IOL Pretoria – South African authorities exceeded their public powers and acted unlawfully and irrationally by granting refugee status to former Rwandan general and suspected war criminal Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa.…

Staff Writer29 October 2012

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African leaders embarrassing African Court judges

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (African Court’s) 27th ordinary session being in Port Louis, Mauritius ended on the 7th of December. Not much is known about this court…

Staff Writer23 October 2012

Mosotho woman fights to be Chief ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesLesotho

Mosotho woman fights to be Chief

The Gazette Customary law provides for male succession only The case demonstrates how customary practices can hinder attainment of equality – SALC The Constitutional Court in Lesotho has reserved judgment…

Staff Writer17 October 2012

Women’s movement must champion justice delivery ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesLesotho

Women’s movement must champion justice delivery

All Africa 12 October 2012 By Priti Patel In August 2012, the Constitutional Court in Lesotho reserved judgment on a succession to chieftainship case that is being challenged by a…

Staff Writer15 October 2012

Botswana women granted right to inherit ArticlesBotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women Articles

Botswana women granted right to inherit

IOL Gabarone, Botswana – In a landmark ruling Botswana’s High Court on Friday affirmed women’s inheritance rights for the first time, up-ending a male-dominated system that had prevailed in the…

Staff Writer13 October 2012

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Botswana women allowed to inherit

BBC The ruling brings customary law in line with the constitution which guarantees equality for women. The Botswana High Court has overturned a customary law which prevented women from inheriting…

Staff Writer12 October 2012

South Africa not the prettiest rule of law country at the ball ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesSouth Africa

South Africa not the prettiest rule of law country at the ball

The Business Day By Nicole Fritz Ahead of the opening of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York next week, heads of state and government will convene for…

Staff Writer22 September 2012

SADC LA: STATEMENT ON THE HARASSMENT OF BATONNIER MBUYI MBIYE TANAYI OF THE DRC Civic RightsCriminal Justice

SADC LA: STATEMENT ON THE HARASSMENT OF BATONNIER MBUYI MBIYE TANAYI OF THE DRC

A statement from the SADC Lawyers’ Association following the continued harassment of the President of the DRC National Bar Association by the government of that country. Download the statement below.…

Staff Writer21 September 2012

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SADC leaders duplicitous in axing tribunal

Mail&Guardian By Nicole Fritz 7 September 2012 So often are the winds of change said to blow through the southern reaches of Africa that the uninformed might think there are…

Staff Writer7 September 2012

Blair citizen’s arrest would be ‘unlawful’ ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice TortureInternational Justice Torture ArticlesSouth Africa

Blair citizen’s arrest would be ‘unlawful’

IOL Protesters would not be acting lawfully if they tried to effect a citizen’s arrest on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Joburg on Thursday, according to Lilian Chenwi,…

Staff Writer3 September 2012

Workshop on public interest litigation in Zambia Civic RightsZambia

Workshop on public interest litigation in Zambia

On 21 August 2012, the Zambia AIDS Law Research and Advocacy Network (ZARAN) and Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) jointly hosted a strategy workshop with lawyers in Lusaka, Zambia. The…

Staff Writer27 August 2012

The ‘universality’ of rights and the draft Zambian constitution Civic RightsResourcesZambia

The ‘universality’ of rights and the draft Zambian constitution

Internationally, human rights are interpreted as being indivisible, interrelated and applicable to everyone. Unfortunately, this fundamental principle is sometimes forgotten during constitution-making processes, as in the case of rights for…

Staff Writer24 August 2012

SALC Litigation Manual: Litigating cases on HIV discrimination Equality Rights HealthEquality Rights ResourcesLitigation Manuals

SALC Litigation Manual: Litigating cases on HIV discrimination

The manual provides concrete legal arguments for use in HIV-related discrimination litigation before domestic courts. Download the full manual here.

Staff Writer23 August 2012