Human rights activists are planning a protest at South Africa embassy in Lilongwe to express anger over the wave of xenophobic attacks on Malawi citizens and other foreigners in South Africa. Billy Mayaya a human rights activist told Nyasa Times that they have already notified police about the protests planned for Tuesday next week. A […]
Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) in Malawi, in conjunction with Crisis Zimbabwe Coalition (CZC) has called upon the Southern Africa Developing Community (SADC) to hold an extra-ordinary summit on the Zimbabwe elections. The two CSOs made the call during a joint press briefing held in Lilongwe on Thursday aimed at lobbying Malawi Government, SADC and […]
Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRRC) has not paid some of it’s for eight months. According to a source, HRCC has been undergoing serious economic challenges lately that it has even failed to pay salaries for some of its employees. The source said the last time all the employees received their full salaries was in June […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has been asked to stop using hate speeches and desist from badmouthing donors and critics. Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) an umbrella of rights groups in Malawi, said in a statement made available to Nyasa Times on Tuesday that Mutharika should stop his inflammatory, intimidating and abusive comments in public […]
Malawi’s human rights activists on Tuesday termed as politically motivated the arrest of former Attorney General and leading private practice lawyer Ralph Kasambara. Meanwhile, Kasambara’s partner in Ralph and Anords legal firm, Wapona Kita said Magistrate Innocent Nedi in Blantyre granted him bail with conditions to deposit K20,000 cach, produce one surety bonded to the sum […]
An active politician cannot head the spy agency, National Intelligence Service (NIS), the Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) says in reaction to President Bingu wa Mutharika naming DPP politician Bintony Kutsaira as head of NIS. In a statement signed by acting national coordinator the Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, HRCC says the position requires a person with […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has received a dressing down from human rights campaigners over his sneering quip likening Malawians to ‘chickens’ that cry on simple issues like the twin problems of forex and fuel. “Malawians are like chickens, they cry over simple issues. Are you telling me that the only problems you can cry […]
The Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) has demanded justice to be served on the investigations into circumstances leading to the death of Polytechnic engineering student Robert Chasowa last September who may have been killed due to his anti-government activism. Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika announced that an enquiry into the death will commence but there […]
Britain and human rights groups in Malawi and international watchdogs have criticised the Bingu wa Mutharika administration for hosting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes in Darfur. Bashir arrived in Malawi on Thursday where he was welcomed with a military honour guard and attended r a regional trade summit with the […]
By Wanga Gwede, Nyasa Times Acting national coordinator FOR Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), a forum for different human rights organisations in the country, Reverend MacDonald Sembereka has hit back at remarks by First Lady Callista Mutharika attacking civil society groups behind the July 20 anti-government demonstrations. “If they [NGOs] want to beg for money, […]