News Updates

News Update September 2010

Botswana · The Botswana government has passed an amendment to its Employment Act that will bring an end to dismissal based on an individual's sexual orientation or HIV status, but rights...

August 2010 News Update

South Africa · South Africa will deport undocumented Zimbabweans on 1 January 2011, ending its 17-month moratorium. In April 2009 the government placed a moratorium on deportations, introduced...

July 2010 News Update

Botswana · The provision of anti-retroviral treatment has reduced deaths among refugees in Dukwi refugee camp near Francistown. The death rate has gone down from an average of five deaths...

June 2010 News Update

Lesotho · Chronic droughts are believed to signal the unfolding impact of climate change in Lesotho and it is projected this situation may become severe which could reduce cultivable...

May 2010 News Update

Malawi · Two gay men jailed in Malawi were pardoned by the country's President after they sentenced to 14-years for what the Malawi law says is "gross indecency and unnatural acts". ...

April 2010 News Update

Malawi · An engagement ceremony has landed a same-sex Malawian couple in jail. The couple was arrested and charged with sodomy and indecency after their public engagement in late December...

March 2010 News Update

Mozambique · Cholera has claimed the lives of over 40 people in Mozambique and flooding throughout the central and northern parts of the country could "aggravate" the problem, aid agencies...

February 2010 News Update

Lesotho: · Recent food security reports show that between 400,000 and 450,000 of Lesotho's 2.1 million people will need food aid before the next harvest in April 2010. This may put the...

January 2010 News Update

South Africa The announcement in late 2009 that the government had approved a new HIV/AIDS policy in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was widely welcomed by AIDS and human rights lobbyists as long...

Situation of children in Southern Africa

Over 60 million children in Southern Africa face poverty, violence and abuse while the HIV and AIDS pandemic remains a major crisis. The United Nations Study on Violence Against Children in 2006 revealed overwhelming levels of violence against children....

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Support grant for children in South Africa

Yonela Zenzile, 14 and her three siblings live with her unemployed parents in Khayelitsha, (a partially informal township in South Africa, on the outskirts of Cape Town. Khayelitsha is home to an estimated 2 million people,...

Communities should be at the forefront of child protection

Save the Children calls for strengthening of national child protection systems in order to empower communities to play a leading role in curbing violence against children. The world’s leading independent children’s rights agency...

Free Education offers hope to Swazi Children

Nonjabulo Ndlangamandla, 14, can afford a smile as she prepares for her final primary education exams end of this year. She is a grade seven pupil at the Ngwenya Central Primary school in the eastern region of Swaziland. “While...

Government’s Obligation in Fulfilling Children’s Rights

By Judith Mulenga, Executive Director. Zambia Civic Education Association Professor Henry Shue of the University of Oxford articulated State parties’ obligations in his ‘tripartite typology’ in which he outlined a government’s obligation...

Public Interest Litigation in the Field of Children’s Rights

By Dr. Ann Skelton Policies and Laws are important for the protection of children. Child rights organisations appropriately spend a lot of time and energy advocating and providing support for child friendly laws and policies. ...

The role of government in fulfilling child rights

By Lucy Jamieson, Senior Advocacy Co-ordinator, Children's Institute, University of Cape Town The term ‘government’ applies to all organs of state at national, provincial and local levels, collectively these institutions...

Failure to focus on poorest has led to more than 2.8 million child deaths in Africa in ten years

More than 2.8 million children’s lives could have been saved in Africa over ten years if countries had made the same effort to help poor children as better-off ones, Save the Children said today. In a new report, the aid agency says...

Failure to focus on poorest has led to four million child deaths in ten years – Save the Children

Four million child deaths could have been prevented over ten years if countries had made the same effort to help poor children as better-off ones, Save the Children said today. In a new report, the aid agency claims it has discovered a...

Save the Children: Stop Using Violence to Discipline Children

MAPUTO, Mozambique (October 14, 2010) — Save the Children is calling on parents and teachers to adopt positive and non-violent means of disciplining children as a way of promoting peaceful and non-violent societies. The world’s leading independent...