SALC’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights programme has the following objectives:

• To ensure a human rights approach in management of teenage/adolescent and learner pregnancy
• To challenge the practice of child and forced marriage
• To ensure accountability for health care violations relating to sexual and reproductive health rights
• To promote recognition and respect for sexual and reproductive health rights
• To challenge laws and practices that violate sexual and reproductive health rights
• To ensure accountability for and eradication of gender-based violence.

Current cases:

Malawi: Seeking accountability for unlawful detention of pregnant learners.
Eswatini (Swaziland): Challenging laws allowing child marriage
Malawi: Challenging  criminalisation of adolescent sexuality.

Completed cases:

Tanzania: Challenging laws allowing child marriage.
Botswana: Challenging prescription in medical negligence claim 
Zimbabwe: Case strengthening women’s access to reproductive health services.
Namibia: Challenging coerced sterilisation of women living with HIV.
Malawi: Advancing the best interests of the child in sentencing of caregivers.
Malawi: Challenge to the arrest and removal from school of pregnant learners
Malawi: Challenging the criminalisation of breastfeeding by women living with HIV.
Malawi: Protecting right to freedom of expression for Woman Human Rights Defenders
Lesotho: Challenge to unfair dismissal as a result of pregnancy in the Lesotho Defence Force.

Publications:

The Global Gag Rule and access to abortion impact on law reform in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Eswatini and Malawi

Advocacy:

SALC in the News: Student’s Rape Case Attracts CSOs Attention