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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
MALAWI
COVID-19 Rules Haunt the Poor
The Nation By James Chavula 27 January 2021 In 2017, a vendor moved the Constitutional...
Read moreAfrican Court’s Landmark Opinion Could Reduce Criminalization of Poverty, Prison Overcrowding
All Africa Open Society Foundations (New York)'s Press Release 4 December 2020 Today, a continental...
Read morePetty Offences Newsletter: Digest of Campaign activities in September 2020
In September 2020, the Regional Campaign to Decriminalise Petty Offences hosted a virtual conference entitled Policing...
Read moreMalawi Human Rights Groups Warn of COVID Deaths in Packed Prisons
The Guardian Human rights campaigners in Malawi are calling on the government to urgently release...
Read moreMalawi to Decongest Prisons With Covid-19 Cases Rising Fast Among Inmates
AllAfrica Minister of homeland security, Richard Chimwendo Banda , acknowledged that the situation in the...
Read moreMalawi: Human Rights During a Lockdown
The Weekend Nation By Victor Mhango from the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and...
Read moreCSOs Call for Urgent Decongestion as Prisons Record COVID-19 Cases
On 14 July 2020, the Malawi Prison Service registered its first COVID-19 case at Mzimba...
Read moreProtecting Malawi’s sex workers from police: ‘They say we’re sinners’
Although there is no law against prostitution in Malawi, sex workers routinely face abuse and...
Read moreChallenging constitutionality of rogue and vagabond offence
In March 2015, the applicant was arrested by police whilst on his way to the...
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