Comment & analysis

One out of every six people in the world living with HIV resides in South Africa. This staggering amount is especially resounding when accounting for the considerable efforts made by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).

On 30 October 2010, I visited Elibrada to execute the traditional rite duty of my late elder brother, Wowusor Dibia, to his maternal kindred at Omordu family, Rumuikhah Compound in Elibrada Emohua.

Dear Professor Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka,

Greeting from the slums of Dar es Salaam!

It is with a sigh of relief that I key this public letter. As publicly anticipated, you are now our popular minister for lands, housing and human settlement development. Congratulations!

The perspective often missing in the debate regarding female genital mutilation (FGM), a harmful traditional practice involving the partial or total removal of the external female genitals, is the voice of African youth.

When I first saw the theme announcement for this year’s commemorations of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, I had to re-read the statement a few times until my disbelief finally subsided.

As I sat quietly, contemplating on my day, almost half-aware of the noises and the people riding the bus with me, I heard someone murmuring. ‘Are you Egyptian?’, he said. I carried on looking away through the windows, starring at the nothingness.

On the occasion of the 48th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR), the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition denounces the rejection of the application for observer status made by the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) before the African C

BACKGROUND

1) In May 2008, The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) applied for observer status at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). On 25 October, the ACHPR sent an email dated 10 May 2010 communicating its decision not to grant CAL observer status.

Dear Mary,

Greetings from South Africa. It has been a long, long time since we last spoke or met. I trust that you are well.

LEDAP, in collaboration with the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL), would like to address the Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention in Africa regarding the human rights situation of African people who are arrested and detained based on sexual orientation, gender identity and