Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire – On this International Human Rights Day, regional human rights organisations commend the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on the adoption and launch of…
Staff Writer11 December 2017
Nyasa Times By Alfred Chauwa Stakeholders have described the new HIV and AIDS Bill as ‘a bad law’ and a disaster to happen as it is discriminatory and will impede…
Staff Writer2 November 2017
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), HIV Justice Worldwide, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Stop TB Partnership, the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA),…
Staff Writer9 October 2017
Paul Kasonkomona is a respected HIV activist and National Coordinator of Engender Rights-Zambia. On 7 April 2013, Kasonkomona was arrested outside Muvi TV station after he appeared on a television…
Staff Writer25 February 2014
11 December 2012–In the week of International Human Rights Day, marked on 10 December, the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern…
Staff Writer12 December 2012
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
6 August 2012 The Atlantic From the 19th International AIDS Conference, looking at how far we’ve come and how far we have to go before an AIDS-free generation In 1959,…
Staff Writer6 August 2012
IOL Three HIV positive women in Namibia have been coercively sterilised in violation of their basic rights, the High Court in Windhoek found. Legal activists have hailed the “landmark” judgment…
Staff Writer31 July 2012
Aljazeera Court says Namibia illegally sterilised women Judge rules state coerced three HIV-positive women into operation by forcing them to sign forms they did not understand. Namibia’s government sterilised three…
Staff Writer31 July 2012