SADC: Adopt Gender and Development Protocol
Summit Leaders Should Act on Equality for Women
Southern African leaders should adopt the proposed Gender and Development Protocol at their upcoming summit after amending it to include crucial provisions deleted in 2007, Human Rights Watch said today. One of the most important provisions that should be put back in to the protocol would commit states to criminalize marital rape.
August 14, 2008 Press Release
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Comments to the Malawi Law Commission on the development of HIV and AIDS Legislation
HRW sumbits comments to the Law Commission about its report on HIV and AIDS legislation, alerting the Commission to potential concerns and assisting it to strengthen the human rights protections provided by the proposed legislation.
June 24, 2008 Legal Submissions
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Zimbabwe: Crackdown on Opposition Condemned
HRW Letter to the Southern African Development Community
I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch to express our concern at the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe and to ask that you intervene urgently and at the highest level on behalf of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
November 21, 2001 Letter
Zimbabwe: Crackdown on Opposition Condemned
Human Rights Watch today called on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to speak out strongly on the need to ensure that the rule of law is respected in Zimbabwe.
November 21, 2001 Press Release
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Malawi: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001
From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
There are no indications of under-18s in government armed forces. In time of public emergency, the National Service Act provides that every citizen between the ages of 18 and 60 may be called for
national service. Recruitment into the armed forces is currently on a voluntary basis and the minimum age is 18.
June 12, 2001 Multi Country Report
Malawi: Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa
The Human Rights Commission came about as part of the transition to a multiparty system when Malawi held its first democratic multiparty elections in 1994. President Bakili Muluzi came into power on a platform that promised to restore the rule of law and uphold human rights. Although provisions were made in the 1994 constitution for a Human Rights Commission, due to delays in the passage of the enabling legislation and funding, the Malawian commission only began functioning fully in 1999. While premature to make any definitive assessment, the Malawian Human Rights Commission does show promise, despite the lack of adequate funding for its work.
January 1, 2001 Multi Country Report
Malawi: Landmine Monitor Report 2000
Key developments since March 1999: The Malawi Army told Landmine Monitor that it has no AP mine stockpile, only inert dummy mines for
training purposes. Malawi has not submitted its Article 7 transparency report, due by 27 August 1999. There were no reported landmine
incidents in Malawi.
August 1, 2000 Multi Country Report
Where Silence Rules: The Suppression of Dissent in Malawi
Malawi is a land where silence rules. Censorship is pervasive: Orwell, Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Wole Soyinka are among hundreds of authors who have been banned. Dozens of Malawians suspected of critical views are detained without charge or have been unfairly tried. Teachers, students and civil servants from the northern part of the country are systematically discriminated against and those who protest are imprisoned. Yet, as a long-time ally of Western interests in southern Africa, Malawi has escaped criticism for its appalling human rights record. Here is a rare look into the myth of Malawi’s ethnic harmony and the government of Life- President Kamuzu Banda who embodies a combination of totalitarian control and personal despotism rarely seen in Africa.
HRW Index No.: ISBN 0-929692-73-X
October 1, 1990 Report
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