The chairperson for the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) Timothy Mtambo said the civil society organisations (CSOs) actively involved in human rights activism and have lost trust in the Malawi Police Services. The gun and petrol bomb attack survivor said he reported his recent attack from suspected regime thugs to police as a matter of […]
The Youth and Society (YAS) has called on state authorities to allow Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) access Nsundwe suspects who are in custody saying failing to do so is an act of intimidation. On Thursday morning, MHRC commissioner Rosemary Kanyuka told the media in Lilongwe that the commission has been denied access to the […]
A number of activities have been organised by Malawian capital punishment campaigners, Reprieve in observing the 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty scheduled for Zomba Prison where children and families of former death-row inmates, as well as former death-row inmates themselves will share their stories. Celebrated under the theme, ‘Children, Unseen Victims’, the World […]
An emotive and controversial intellectual exchange ensued at the Faculty of Law boardroom at Chancellor College—the home of academic freedom—in Zomba where legal scholars punched holes on some of the health laws in the country. The intellectual feast, dubbed students–staff seminar, was organized by the Health, HIV/AIDS legal clinic of the Faculty of Law—a clinic […]
Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected with HIV and Aids (MANERELA+) has faulted some eligious and community leaders who they say have contributed to the persistent homophobia, stigma and discrimination towards LGBTI all in other words members of key population across the globe. According to MANERELA+ Programs Officer Harold Kachepatsonga, the […]
Malawi government has faulted the Association of People with Albinism (APAM) over Saturday’s clash between police and members of the association who were demonstrating in the capital Lilongwe and blocked the M1 road close to the Malawi Institute of Management (MIM ). Reacting to the development, government said through its spokesman Henry Mussa that it will […]
President Peter Mutharika has appointed an eight-member commission of inquiry to thoroughly investigate vital information on the attacks to protect persons with albinism (PWAs) which will be chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Robert Chinangw, SC. Association of People with Albinism (Apam) petitioned Mutharika to appoint a commission of inquiry and conduct a comprehensive research […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have been granted leave to apply for a judicial review stopping the tabling of NGO (Amendment) law in Parliament which they have accused the government of trying to rush through the “draconian” law ahead of next year’s elections aimed at muzzling criticism and stifling advocacy groups. Accoridng to courts codument seen […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs) say they will go to court to block the implementation of NGO (Amendment) law should government table the contentious Bill in the National Assembly and Parliament passes it. Gift Trapence, vice chairman of Human Rights Defenders said the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) Amendment Bill of 2018 is draconian law and can only […]
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have condemned government’s attempts to close down human rights NGOs through its draconian proposed Bill. The CSOs expressed concern over Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Amendment Bill of 2018 which, among others, seeks to amend the NGO Act by establishing an authority which aims at tightening the noose around the neck of CSOs. […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Cecilia Chazama has described the construction of new cell blocks at Maula Prison in Lilongwe as a positive step that would ensure that the prison is decongested. Chazama made the remarks when she commissioned the two prison cell blocks which have been constructed with funds from the Malawi […]
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Southern African Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) have issued separate statements condemning increased threats and intimidation against human rights defenders and activists in Malawi. They two international bodies have called for the protection and civil society actors in the country and that police should […]
Outgoing Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) chairman Justin Dzonzi has asked the government to up its funding to the state run rights body, saying the commission has sometimes failed to execute its duties due to lack of funding. Dzonzi said this on Friday in Lilongwe where he and the other commissioners bid farewell to the […]
Private practise lawyer Wapona Kita has openely declared that Malawi is not taking any strides in as far as empowering and improving women human rights activism is concerned. Kita made the remarls as male human rights activists continue to dominate the battlefield in the fight against various human rights abuses to Malawians. “We are fairing […]
Malawi police said Wednesday they had arrested Limbani Sibande, 24, in northern city of Mzuzu, for presumed homosexuality at a time activist are demanding that laws banning homosexuality should be overturned. Both Northern Region Police Public Relations Officer Peter Kalaya and National Police headquarters in Lilongwe, Public Relations Officer, James Kadadzera, confirmed the arrest. The […]
Chairperson for Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected with HIV and Aids (MANERELA)-Mangochi Branch Pastor Gamaliyele has admitted that dialogue meetings between religious leaders and members of the LGBTI persons have tremendously helped in reducing discrimination and violenve against members of the LGBTI community. The servant of God disclosed this recently in Mangochi at a meeting MANERELA […]
Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) and the Centre for Human Rights Rehabilitation—two vocal rights groupings—have organised a two-day training for human rights defenders in the country presently being held in Malawi’s administrative capital Lilongwe. The meeting is with funding from the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP), and is being facilitated by Blessing Gorojena, […]
Malawi Police officers have been urged to observe 48-hour rule when detaining suspects in police cells as no accused person shall be held for more than two days in police custody without being brought before a magistrate or released on bail. The call was made on Tuesday during the closure of a three day workshop […]