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Senate Masupha pursues women’s right to chieftainship : Senate Masupha and Others v Kingdom of Lesotho

On 9 September 2014, Senate Masupha, the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Lesotho) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) submitted a complaint to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’…

Staff Writer29 September 2014

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Lesotho law banning women from becoming chiefs is unconstitutional and must be repealed, says SALC

Johannesburg—The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) today joined the fight to repeal parts of Lesotho’s discriminatory Chieftainship Act, which only allows the first-born son to succeed to chieftainship, by filing…

Staff Writer17 January 2012

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