Malawi needs to sharpen its focus on the connections between climate change, human rights and environmental protection, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has said, warning that vulnerable communities continue to shoulder the worst effects of the climate crisis. Speaking at a joint UNDP and Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) media engagement on environmental and […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika has vowed to ramp up Malawi’s human rights protections — issuing the pledge during a high‑profile meeting at Kamuzu Palace with the outgoing Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) team. The Commissioners, whose three‑year term officially ended on August 26, 2026, were hosted for what insiders described as a “frank and forward‑looking” […]
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) have appeaeled to the Malawi Police Service to institute swift investigation into criminal elements surrounding the Salima violence and ensure that perpetrators are brought before the courts of law. The two human rights watchdogs say they are dismayed by […]
A United States (US) Department of State report, covering the year 2019 under the former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has exposed human rights violations in Malawi. The report, issued by the US Embassy on Thursday, shows that during the period, Malawi was marked by significant human rights violations including extrajudicial killings such as the […]
A family in Machinjiri is alleging that one of their members, Levi Njiwa, is battling for his life following some merciless beating by police officers at Area 5 police unit, Machinjiri in Blantyre According to one of his relatives, the alleged victim was arrested on Wednesday last week, December 2, 2020 following some misunderstandings with […]
The taxpayer-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has observed with “great concern” the worsening violations of economic, social and cultural rights in 2020 amidst Covid-19 and has called for decisive leadership if Malawi is to recover better from virus pandemic shock. The remarks were made by MHRC Commissioner responsible for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights […]
Malawi’s Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has urged government and other stakeholders to ensure that human rights remain central in all recovery efforts from Covid-19 as Malawi joins the rest of the world tomorrow in commemoration of International Human Rights Day. MHRC held a news onference on Tuesday in Mzuzu with the objective of updating the […]
Presidential press secretary Brian Banda has said President Lazarus Chakwera has no clear stand on legalization of same-sex marriages and has left the issue to the country’s citizens to determine whether to legalise it or not. Banda also told the media during the Weekly Brief at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre on Mondaythat the issue was same-sex marriages […]
Several UN member States took turns to congratulate Malawi for a peaceful, democratic transition as positive examples to the African continent at the 36th Session of UN Human Rights Council’s organized Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday. Malawi appeared before the UN Human Rights Council to present it’s progress in terms of […]
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Titus Mvalo is leading a Malawi delegation to observe the review of the country human rights record in Geneva to be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group on Tuesday, November 3. This will be the third review for Malawi — the first […]
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Titus Mvalo, has said Malawi’s election to UN’s 47-member Human Rights Council is a step in the right direction to improve human rights record. Mvalo told a news conference in Lilongwe that the UN the Human Rights Council is satisfied with Malawi human rights record. “This is a mark of […]
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Youth and Society (YAS) have called upon the Malawi government to use its membership at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to improve its human rights record and vigorously drive the global human rights agenda. The call follows the election of the Malawi Government to […]
Malawi has been elected to the UN human rights council for the next three years on the 47-seat body during elections held on Tuesday conducted at the UN headquarters in New York. Under the council’s rules, seats are allocated to regions to ensure geographical representation. Four countries won Africa seats: Malawi, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Senegal. Russia and […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said he did not rebuke his Zimbabwean counterpart Emerson Mnangagwa, whose regime has come under international spotlight for human rights abuses, saying there were proper processes that need to be followed in tackling such issues. Two civil society organisations, Youth and Society and Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation- on Tuesday […]
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Youth and Society (YAS) have written a letter to Minister if Foreign Affairs Elsenwhower Mkaka asking President Lazarus Chakwera , who will be on a two-day State visit to Harare, to engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa to “tone down” on escalation of human rights violations. In […]
Renowned legal scholar Professor Edge Kanyongolo of University of Malawi at Chancellor College has appealed to President Lazarus Chakwera against being mum on human rights abuses as he visits Zimbabwe this week. Chakwera is set to leave for Harare, Zimbabwe, this Wednesday on a two-day State visit. Writing on his Facebook account, Kanyongolo was blunt saying:“During his planned visit […]
Home Affairs Minister Richard Chimwendo Banda has come under immense pressure from several sectors of the general public, demanding him to act on a video showing police officers forcing women to whip each other. According to video circulating on social media, police officers, who guards forests, found women collecting firewood in a reserve and, as […]
Minister of Civic Education and National Unity, Timothy Mtambo, has assured civil society organisations (CSOs) and human rights defenders in the country that the Tonse Alliance led government will create an enabling environment for them to play a critical role towards improving the country’s democratization drive. The minister made the remarks on Thursday in Lilongwe […]