A newspaper report on Tuesday highlighted Chinese brutality to Malawian workers at the construction site of a National Stadium in the capital city Lilongwe. And Nyasa Times correspondent followed up by visiting the construction place where it established that indeed workers were being abused. Those who spoke to Nyasa Times collaborated the Daily Times report […]
Despite faulting government in a number of areas, the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has patted the Joyce Banda’s administration at the back for notable achievements registered in the human rights, rule of law and good governance arena. CHRR, one of the fearless government critiques, observes that unlike during the late President Bingu wa Mutharika regime Banda’s admin […]
Malawi Human Rights Defenders group has requested the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Prisons to inspect and identify challenges facing people in prisons and make recommendations on the way forward to the government. One of the Human Rights Defenders and lawyer, Habiba Osman, told journalists in Lilongwe that the situation of prisons in the country […]
The 9th December is International Anti-corruption Day. 10 December is International Human Rights Day. The theme in Malawi for the latter is free and fair 2014 elections. Is there a connection between the two days? I believe there is. Firstly, no one should have to pay a bribe to access a service which is otherwise […]
Malawi’s Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (CEDEP) has applauded the country’s private media for standing their ground to champion media freedom and other fundamental human freedoms. In a statement released in commemoration of the World Human Rights Day which falls of December 10, the two human rights […]
Human rights activists have described the current cash-gate scandal locking the Malawi Government and the failure by President Joyce Banda administration to acknowledge and get to the bottom of the crisis as a serious human rights violation denying the country’s citizens both development and socio-economic rights. In a statement released in commemoration of the World […]
Malawi should abolish the death penalty because it is barbaric and inhuman, the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Christian community that is officially recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as a “Church public lay association” has said. Under the Cities for life programme, the Community has embarked on a campaign to force government to end the […]
Local human rights campaigners are accusing President Joyce Banda’s administration of failing “big time” on provision of heath care to Malawians citing recent revelation by medical workers that almost 50 people die of curable ailments a week at referral Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) alone because of lack of medical supplies. In a statement, Executive Director […]
The Muslims Association of Malawi (MAM) has issued a statement condemning Sheikh Mdala Ali Tambuli and human rights activists who are pushing for the legalization of homosexuality in the country. MAM claims that homosexuality is not only evil and sinful but also illegal and criminalized under Sections 153 and 156 of the Penal Code (Laws […]
Two leading human rights non-governmental organisations in Malawi Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (CEDEP) have appealed to the government of Malawi in conjunction with their Tanzanian counterparts to urgently investigate the recent “alleged” xenophobic attacks on some of the deported Malawians The attacks reportedly led to the […]
The overcrowding, other degrading and inhuman conditions in the country’s prison service has attracted concerns of Norway which says it will fight to ensure a positive welfare of prisoners and suspects. Many inmates crowding the cells were on remand for petty offences, waiting for their cases to be heard for months, others years. “Prisons in […]
The state-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has released an annual human rights report for the country cataloging rights abuses including faulting the government on the suppression of the media and the involvement of ruling party officials in the distribution of humanitarian food. MHRC chairperson Sophie Kalinde launched the report in Lilongwe together with commissioners […]
My appreciations go to Malawi human rights organisations for promotion of human rights in our beloved warm heart of Africa. For sure if you rewind events of our country back to 1970s and 80s, you would agree that human rights were so limited but after attainment of multiparty democracy in 1994 and ratification of the […]
Malawi human rights groups have criticized the decision by government to introduce compulsory regulation forcing suspected sex workers, pregnant women and other groups to undergo HIV testing. At least 23 Civil Society organizations in Malawi working in the area of HIV and AIDS voiced out their dissatisfaction against some provisions of the draft HIV and AIDS […]
For a long time, I have believed that Malawi is a Christian state but I regret to say that, Malawi is not a Christian state and it has never been. In fact the constitution does not state anything as such. If Malawi was a Christian state the constitutional preamble would have clearly indicated it i.e. […]
Malawi Watch executive director Billy Banda has criticized the Police for continued detention of a man accused of insulting President Joyce Banda, saying the law enforcers are abusing the suspect’s human rights to bail. Japhet Chirwa, who hails from Mazembe village, T/A Fulumapiri, Nkhata Bay, is languishing at Mzuzu Prison where he has been remanded […]
Human rights organisations on Tuesday called on the Malawi government to urgently repeal out-dated, colonial era vagrancy laws that are being used by the police to target the poor and marginalised in Blantyre. A research report released Tuesday in the capital Lilongwe by the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) and the […]
The Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) are expected to launch a ground-breaking study on the Blantyre police’s use of outdated vagrancy laws to arrest and detain people for minor nuisance-related behaviour – a practice that appears to deliberately target the poor and marginalised. A statement which Nyasa Times possesses […]