The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has dismissed a recent rating the Malawi government has given itself on the level of compliance to respect for human rights. CHRR acting executive director, Michael Kaiyatsa, accused the government of exaggerating its level of compliance on respect for human rights. Kaiyatsa was speaking exclusively with Nyasa […]
Malawi’s human rights watchdogs, the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Youth and Society (YAS), have expressed excitement with the arrest 12 police officers suspected to be behind the killing of Buleya Lule. Lule died in police custody at the Lilongwe Police Station on 21 February 2019, just a few hours after […]
The United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday voiced optimism for Malawi whose new President Lazarus Chakwera, has vowed to root out corruption after winning a re-run election. Pompeo noted that it was the first time that a candidate from an opposing party has won in Africa after an earlier election was […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has taken Petroda Malawi Limited to task over escalating incidences of labour-related human rights violations. This follows a recent video clip circulating on social media and other platforms allegedly showing Petroda Malawi manager at Chitukuko filling station coercively undressing and strip-searching a Malawian worker having accused him of theft. In […]
The African Court on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) has suspended the enforcement of the decision by the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal to slap Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka with a K21.6 million costs bill in a case in which he sued President Peter Mutharika to fire his then Cabinet minister […]
Newly elected chairperson for the state run Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has vowed to monitor human rights violations in the run up to the Constitutional Court sanctioned fresh presidential election on May 19. Reverend Patrick Semphere was elected by his fellow MHRC commissioners on Friday and he will lead the organization for the next […]
Rastafarians in Malawi received a heavy reprieve on Tuesday after the High Court ordered public schools to start enrolling dreadlocked learners. An injunction granted by Judge Zione Ntaba at the High Court in Zomba orders the Attorney General, Ministry of Education, Education Division Manager (South) and the Headmaster of Blantyre Girls Primary School to allow […]
Governance commentator Makhumbo Munthali has assessed the performance of Malawi on several governance and accountability indicators, saying “while there have been some positives in 2019, the overall picture on governance remains mostly negative.” In his analysis posted on Nyasa Times, Munthali said the country registered stagnation in terms of adhering to good governance principles, a […]
Negatives Operationalisation of Access to Information Law: 2019 will be remembered as a year when government of Malawi continued to dilly-dally on the operationalisation of Access to Information Law. Continued delays to release the public inquiry report on the killings of persons with albinism; extra-judicial killings: While the year 2019 witnessed reduced cases of the […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) chairperson Timothy Mtambo has said that authorities in the country hide through instituted commission of inquiries to conceal justice and blindfold Malawians. Mtambo said this during an exclusive interview monitored by Nyasa Times on Rainbow Television when he was being interviewed on issues of national importance. The programs host Jonah […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) says it is inviting United Nations special rapporteur on human rights to inspect the country’s situation. This comes at a time when some quarters are expressing worry over delays by the government to investigate rapes of women and girls at Nsundwe in Lilongwe by the police. HRDC northern region chairperson […]
Hundreds of people, mostly the youth braved rains in Lilongwe to participate in the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) sanctioned march to commemorate the International Human Rights Day and protests against rights infringements the country has witnessed lately. Chairperson of HRDC Timothy Mtambo asked Malawians to stand up for their rights. He said it was […]
President Peter Mutharika has urged the country to take stock of the strides taken in the promotion and protection of fundamental freedoms and human rights of its citizens and people in Malawi. In his message on Human Rights Day which falls on December 10 and this year is being commemorated under the theme ‘Youth standing […]
Women activists have said they are investigating allegations of female students being coaxed into sexual acts with lecturers in exchange for grades. The Women’s Chapter of Human Rights Defenders Coalition Chairperson, Dorothy Ngoma says issues of sex scandals in universities are real, hence need for serious corrective measure. “I went around the country in the […]
Students at St Mary’s Karonga Girls Secondary School Wednesday impressed a delegation from the University of Malawi’s Chancellor College (Chanco)’s Criminal Justice Legal Clinic (CJLC) on how their stand as far as human rights are concerned. CJLC is a group of 42 students at Chanco whose aim is to discuss issues mainly related to issues of law, especially human […]
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) will embark on national wide citizens rallies with the first to be held at Nsundwe on Sunday, November 24. This was disclosed in Lilongwe on Friday during the presser which HRDC held where the grouping has also endorsed the truck drivers demonstrations slated for December 3. HRDC chairperson Timothy […]
Stakeholders who pushed government to implement an increase in the Malawi Prison Service (MPS) budget to cater for female prisoners’ menstrual hygiene materials. The Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and Assistance (CHREAA), with funding from Amplify Change, has been advocating for the inclusion of menstrual hygiene packages in the Malawi prison health budget for […]
The United Democratic Front (UDF) party has asked the authorities to reconstitute the State-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) and appoint a Commission of inquiry in the wake of what it calls incidents of abuse of human rights perpetuated by political violence in the country. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times signed by UDF […]