Malawi’s leading human rights watchdog Center for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has urged opposition parties to use their numerical advantage in Parliament to push for reforms in archaic sedition and treason laws instead of just being cry babies when they have the capacity to push for such changes. In their recent statement made available […]
Malawi human rights campaigners, Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has condemned the Nsanje District’s gang which burned seven men to death for allegedly possessing human bones intended for use in witchcraft. The incensed mob attacked the suspects then set them on fire using petrol. CHRR executive director Timothy Mtambo said the torching is unacceptable and […]
Malawi Parliament has been urged by civil society organisations to reject the adulterated Access to Information Bill (ATI) when government tables it in Parliament. Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (Cedep) said in a statement made available to Nyasa Times expressing their “disappointment” at the “undemocratic elements” in the […]
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), have come out strongly to condemn the alleged sexual exploitation and abuse of a child by Lilongwe gay man, Kelvin Gonani. It was reported that Gonani had been subjected to a homophobic beating in Lilongwe by some unknown assailants. […]
Malawi exile returnees Archibald Kapote Mwakasungura and Douglas Miller have launched a book titled “Malawi’s Lost Years: and her forsaken heroes”, a documentation of hidden but now uncovered testimonies of people who suffered abuse and injustice during Kamuzu Banda’s 30 year one-party autocratic rule in Malawi. The book was launched at Riverside Hotel in Lilongwe […]
Malawi government has been advised not to break ties with the International Criminal Court (ICC) saying the country should maintain recognising its jurisdiction. A proposal by Kenya pushing for a pullout from the ICC has been backed by African leaders, repeating claims it unfairly targets the continent. Chad’s President Idriss Deby, elected African Union chairman […]
Human rights activist and researcher for Center for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR), Mankhumbo Munthali has said statement that opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) are still consulting on the call for voting system of electing a Head of State to be changed from the current first-past-the-post to one for a 50 per cent plus one law to […]
Just a few days after Malawi’s leading donors of direct budget support – European Union (EU), Britain, Norway and Germany – have ruled out any hopes of budget support in the 2016/17 fiscal year, Malawi’s renowned development expert and University of Malawi Chancellor College Professor in Development Studies Dr. Blessings Chinsinga has warned that Malawi […]
Two prominent civil rights activists have told Malawians to stand up against oppression as the nation on Friday commemorates John Chilembwe Day. Timothy Mtambo, executive director of Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Gift Trapence of Centre for Development (Cedep) said this in a joint statement. The two rights activists said Malawians can […]
Two human rights groups Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (CEDEP), have expressed dismay with the aggravating state of security in the country which is partly evident by the recent shooting of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Regional Treasurer for the North, Happy Kumwenda, who fortunately survived but […]
Two renowned human rights organisations in Malawi have said 2015 will be remembered as a year when leadership went to bed in as far as matching rhetoric with concrete action is concerned. Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for the Development of People (Cedep), in a joint statement made available to Nyasa […]
Having listened to the Press Conference President Prof. Peter Mutharika held on Tuesday, 14th December, 2015, at State House, to brief the nation on what transpired during his recent official trips abroad, we at Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (Cedep), found it imperative to issue a reaction […]
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation(CHRR), held a workshop for media practitioners in the country on the role of access to information in the fight against corruption. CHRR are implementing the project with funding from Africa Freedom For Information Freedom. Addressing over 25 journalists who attended the workshop in Lilongwe on Wednesday, executive Director, for […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government is “taking the citizens’ trust for granted” through continued delays in tabling the Access to Information (ATI) bill in Parliament, two prominent human rights groups have said. Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR), Timothy Mtambo, and Centre for Development of People (Cedep), Gift Trapence, made the accusation […]
Some Civil Society groups, human rights defenders and lawyers working in the realm of human rights and governance in Southern Africa have called for depolitisization of Malawi NGO board. The grouping made these observations during their submission at Forum on the Participation of NGOs in the 57th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human […]
Malawi’s renowned human rights and governance activist Timothy Mtambo has cautioned President Peter Mutharika that he risks losing legitimacy to govern if he continues betraying the public trust and stated that no President including Mutharika is immune to resignation under the circumstances of loss of public trust as provided by law. Mtambo made these observations […]
Malawi human rights watchdog Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), have petitioned the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to press on the Peter Mutharika administration to address matters of extra judicial killings, threats to rights defenders and journalists. In a petition seen […]
The main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) on Thursday demanded the Democratic Progressive Party(DPP) led government to explain the use of 115 delegates who have been taken to to the UN General Assembly in New York. President Peter Mutharika has taken a delegation of over 100 people that included cabinet ministers, security aides and support staff to […]