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SADC review ‘denies citizens redress’ ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsSADCSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsZimbabwe

SADC review ‘denies citizens redress’

A RECENT decision by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) summit means an “effective suspension” of the Sadc tribunal, which will deny Sadc citizens redress, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) said last…

Staff Writer8 November 2010

Southern Africa: More sterilisations of HIV-positive women uncovered ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenNamibiaSADCSouth AfricaZimbabwe

Southern Africa: More sterilisations of HIV-positive women uncovered

Plus News JOHANNESBURG, 30 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later when, after failing to…

Staff Writer30 October 2010

Condoms in prison debate rages ArticlesBotswanaCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsCriminal Justice Prison ReformCriminal Justice Prison Reform ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsLesotho

Condoms in prison debate rages

Mmegi Online The issue of whether to distribute condoms in prisons is a hot potato that has pitted the government against AIDS organisations. It has pitted Vice-President Mompati Merafhe, against…

Staff Writer5 October 2010

No good reason to protect Rwandan fugitive ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesSouth Africa

No good reason to protect Rwandan fugitive

The Business Day By Alan Wallis SPAIN wants him. Rwanda wants him. Given his questionable asylum status, SA seems to want him too. And let’s not forget there is also…

Staff Writer4 October 2010

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Civil Society protests suspension of SADC Tribunal

Johannesburg – Civil society from throughout southern Africa today protested the suspension of the SADC Tribunal, petitioning the SADC Secretary General Tomaz Salomão and Ministers of Justice of the various…

Staff Writer4 October 2010

Homosexuality crucial to Malawi’s HIV/AIDS fight-veep ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsMalawi

Homosexuality crucial to Malawi’s HIV/AIDS fight-veep

Nyasa Times Malawi’s Vice president, Joyce Banda, has urged the faith leaders to open up on same sex partners in order for the country to make significant strides in the…

Staff Writer29 September 2010

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Goldstone defends International Court

The Mail&Guardian The criticism that the International Criminal Court (ICC) was against African countries was unfair, Judge Richard Goldstone said on Monday. "It is unfair to say the court is…

Staff Writer28 September 2010

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International Justice, SA leads the way in standing up against war criminals

The Business Day UNTIL the last 15 years of the 20th century, international criminal justice did not exist. Since the establishment by the United Nations (UN) of the International Criminal…

Staff Writer21 September 2010

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‘No request to extradite Nyamwasa’

The Times Live South Africa has yet to receive a formal extradition request from Spain for former Rwandan army chief Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa over genocide charges. In 2008 Spain charged…

Staff Writer19 September 2010

Namibian women with HIV tell of forced sterilisations ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesNamibia

Namibian women with HIV tell of forced sterilisations

The Times Live "I was in labour at the state hospital when a nurse showed me a paper and said I must sign to allow a Caesarean section," she told…

Staff Writer9 September 2010

Sterilisation sparks social outcry ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesNamibia

Sterilisation sparks social outcry

The Mail&Guardian When an HIV-positive woman in labour arrived at a Namibian state hospital in October 2007, she did not know that the health workers responsible for delivering her baby…

Staff Writer9 September 2010

Punitive laws do little to stem the HIV tide ArticlesCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsSADC

Punitive laws do little to stem the HIV tide

Business Day Priti Patel SEX, drugs, rock ’n’ roll with a reality show thrown in: sounds like the perfect cocktail for a media extravaganza. Well it was, just not in…

Priti Patel2 September 2010

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‘Defend rights of HIV+ people’

ZAMBIA AIDS Law Research and Advocacy Network (ZARAN) has called on the legal fraternity in Zambia to use their legal skills to defend the poor who have been adversely infected…

Staff Writer26 August 2010

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Botswana’s position is disappointing

By Nicole Fritz and Lloyd Kuveya Outside the international lawyer’s world, the European Court on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms generates little scintillating debate. And yet it is an institution…

Staff Writer17 August 2010

Scant room to scoff at model’s stupidity ArticlesDR CongoSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights ExtractivesSocio-Economic Rights Extractives ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsZimbabwe

Scant room to scoff at model’s stupidity

By Nicole Fritz AMONG those who do human rights work and who are inclined to sackcloth and ashes, model Naomi Campbell’s testimony at the Special Court for Sierra Leone caused…

Staff Writer17 August 2010

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Botswana defies African Commission ruling

Botswana Defies African Commission Ruling Statements by Botswana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs indicating that Botswana will not comply with a recent ruling by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’…

Staff Writer16 August 2010

Botswana civil society and media take government to court ArticlesBotswanaCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights News

Botswana civil society and media take government to court

The media fraternity has roped in other civil society organisations in their looming court case to overturn the Media Practitioners Act. Represented by attorney Dick Bayford and advocate Steven Budlender…

Staff Writer14 August 2010

Namibian High Court begin trial in coerced sterilization of HIV positive women case Equality RightsEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenNamibia

Namibian High Court begin trial in coerced sterilization of HIV positive women case

The case of three HIV-positive women suing the Namibian government for coerced sterilisation was continued until 1 September 2010. The High Court in Windhoek began hearing the case of three…

Staff Writer31 July 2010

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NPA’S refusal to investigate alleged torture by Zimbabwean police officials

SALC, together with the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), is urging the High Court of Gauteng to review, declare unlawful and invalid, and set aside the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) refusal…

Staff Writer30 July 2010

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Malawi: Protecting the rights of same-sex couples

Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were arrested on 28 December 2009 and charged with violating sections 153 and 156 of Malawi’s Penal Code prohibiting carnal knowledge against the order of…

Staff Writer29 July 2010