SALC
Addressing prison overcrowding
- 20 March 2025
- SALC
Picture Credit: © Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance, Malawi
Ensuring prisoners’ right to food
- 19 March 2025
- SALC
“The conditions are very poor … I can say beyond human living … something you cannot imagine. We would sometimes sleep on an empty stomach for 3-7 days… on the 7th day, we could be provided with some porridge. You could see your fellow inmate dying in front of you.”
The right to vote for prisoners in SADC
- 19 March 2025
- SALC
Picture Credit: © Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance, Malawi
Budgeting transparency for correctional services in SADC
- 7 March 2025
- SALC
Catering for prisoners’ needs in the national budget
Climate change and prisons in SADC
- 6 March 2025
- SALC
Ensuring timely adaptation to climate change in places of detention
Statement: Shining a light on the urgency of implementing the Regional Action Plan on Albinism in Africa
- 11 September 2019
- SALC
On 13 June, every year the world commemorates the International Albinism Awareness Day. This year the International Albinism Awareness day is commemorated under the theme ‘shining our light to the world’ , providing an opportunity to reflect on progress and challenges facing persons with albinism. SALC makes the following statement.
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