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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

NPA’S refusal to investigate alleged torture by Zimbabwean police officials International JusticeInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice TortureSouth AfricaZimbabwe

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

Malawi: Protecting the rights of same-sex couples Equality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ Completed CasesMalawi

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

Rwanda summons SA ambassador over shooting probe International JusticeInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

Rwanda summons SA ambassador over shooting probe

Kigali has summoned South Africa’s ambassador to voice concernover the probe into the shooting last month in Johannesburg of a Rwandan general, Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo told Agence France-Presse late…

Staff Writer7 July 2010

General’s status as refugee called into question ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesSouth Africa

General’s status as refugee called into question

Business Day AN INDICTMENT issued against a former Rwandan general who was shot in Johannesburg earlier this month, holding him accountable for murders that were part of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide,…

Staff Writer28 June 2010

Justice dept mulls Rwanda general’s extradition ArticlesInternational JusticeInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesSouth Africa

Justice dept mulls Rwanda general’s extradition

The Department of Justice was investigating whether South Africa should consider an extradition request for former Rwandan army chief of staff, General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa. Justice department spokespersn Tlali Tlali…

Staff Writer23 June 2010

Rwandan General shot in South Africa International JusticeInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice War CrimesSouth Africa

Rwandan General shot in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) — An exiled Rwandan general was shot and wounded in South Africa on Saturday in what his wife called a Rwandan-backed assassination attempt, a charge the Rwandan government dismissed…

Staff Writer19 June 2010

Women’s rights take one step forward, two steps back Equality RightsEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEswatini

Women’s rights take one step forward, two steps back

MBABANE,  – Much to the frustration of gender activists, Swaziland’s Supreme Court has reversed a February 2010 High Court ruling that allowed a married woman to register property in their…

Staff Writer16 June 2010

SA urged to probe jailing of Zim activist ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights ExtractivesSocio-Economic Rights Extractives ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsSouth AfricaZimbabwe

SA urged to probe jailing of Zim activist

The Mail and Guardian learned on Tuesday that detained Zimbabwean human rights defender Farai Maguwu had been removed from the notorious Matapi police cells in Harare. "Sometime on Saturday, he…

Staff Writer15 June 2010

SA bar’s ‘unconstitutional’ leaders from world cup International JusticeInternational Justice NewsInternational Justice TortureInternational Justice War CrimesSouth AfricaZimbabwe

SA bar’s ‘unconstitutional’ leaders from world cup

Johannesburg — PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived here yesterday afternoon to join other African leaders for the official opening of the historic Fifa 2010 Soccer World Cup at Soccer City Stadium today.…

Staff Writer11 June 2010

HIV-positive women sterilised against their will ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesNamibiaSouth Africa

HIV-positive women sterilised against their will

By City Press International law recognises the widespread and forced use of this practice as a crime against humanity Anna-Maria Lombard At least 12 South African women, sterilised against their…

Staff Writer7 June 2010

Picking up the pieces in Malawi Equality RightsEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights NewsMalawi

Picking up the pieces in Malawi

Human rights activists plot the path forward in the wake of the recent same-sex court case. Before the outsized international human rights outcry. Before the world had even heard of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga.…

Staff Writer3 June 2010

Sterilisation case in court Equality RightsEquality Rights EventsEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenNamibia

Sterilisation case in court

WINDHOEK – The case in which Government is being taken to court over the alleged forced sterilisation of six women at state medical facilities reopened in the High Court yesterday,…

Staff Writer2 June 2010

Are Namibian women being forcibly sterilised Equality RightsEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenNamibia

Are Namibian women being forcibly sterilised

REHOBOTH, Namibia
, May 31 (IPS) – A landmark court case, alleging that HIV-positive women were forcibly sterilised in Namibian state hospitals begins in Windhoek’s High Court on Jun. 1. Human…

Staff Writer31 May 2010

Zambia: Mandatory HIV testing of military employees Equality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health Completed CasesZambia

Zambia: Mandatory HIV testing of military employees

In May 2010, the High Court in Livingstone found that both petitioners, Stanley Kingaipe and Charles Chookole, were subjected to HIV testing without their informed consent in violation of their…

Staff Writer29 May 2010

Malawi’s President pardons Monjeza and Chimbalanga Equality RightsEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights NewsMalawi

Malawi’s President pardons Monjeza and Chimbalanga

Malawi’s President announced today that he was pardoning Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, the couple would have spent 14 years in prison.  The couple was imprisoned for 5 months. This…

Staff Writer29 May 2010

World attention falls on Namibia sterilisation case ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesNamibia

World attention falls on Namibia sterilisation case

ALL eyes will be on Namibia next week when the case of HIV-positive women, allegedly sterilised in State hospitals without their consent, goes to court. The three women are suing…

Staff Writer28 May 2010

Zambian High Court finds mandatory HIV testing by military unconstitutional Equality RightsEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights NewsZambia

Zambian High Court finds mandatory HIV testing by military unconstitutional

Today, the Livingstone High Court held that the Zambian Air Force’s decision to mandatorily subject Stanley Kingaipe and Charles Chookole to an HIV test violated their rights to privacy and…

Staff Writer27 May 2010

Court awards damages in HIV screening test case ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights NewsZambia

Court awards damages in HIV screening test case

By BBC News Two ex-officers in Zambia’s air force have been awarded damages following claims they were tested and treated for HIV without their knowledge.  The men had claimed they…

Staff Writer27 May 2010