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Feb
18
2018

Lesotho High Court Recognises the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Female Soldiers

By admin

On 14 February 2018, the Lesotho High Court handed down judgment in a landmark case on women’s rights. The judgment of Sakoane J (as part of a 3 panel bench) in the case of Private Lekhetso Mokhele and Others v The Commander, Lesotho Defence Forces and Others sets an important precedent on the rights of pregnant employees in the military.

Feb
13
2018

Namibian Supreme Court outlaws ultra-long prison sentences

By Carmel Rickard

CARMEL RICKARD

NAMIBIAN judges may no longer impose extremely long jail terms that leave a prisoner worse off than under a conventional life sentence. The country’s top court has found it unconstitutional to hand down “informal life sentences”, via jail terms that are so long that offenders have no possible hope of ever being released before they die.

Jan
30
2018

Indigenousness and peoples’ rights in the African human rights system: situating the Ogiek judgement of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

By Mariya Badeva-Bright

In May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered its first indigenous rights case dealing with the expulsion of the Ogiek from their ancestral lands in the Kenyan Mau forest. The article highlights the judgement’s most interesting features in light of the ongoing debates surrounding indigenousness and indigenous rights in Africa.

Jan
30
2018

Self-determination in the Case Law of the African Commission: Lessons for Europe

By Mariya Badeva-Bright

Looking at self-determination in contemporary Europe, one finds self-determination lumped together with the question of a possible right to remedial secession, either passionately defended or fervently rejected. Lumping self-determination and secession together tends to reduce self-determination to a territorial meaning. Such a territorial meaning indicates a larger geographical bias in international law.

Jan
30
2018

Uganda: Judicial Independence Reaffirmed

By Carmel Rickard

JUDGES of Uganda’s constitutional court have come to the rescue of two judicial colleagues, finding that the statutory five-year limited term of office of the industrial court bench undermined judicial independence and was unconstitutional and therefore invalid.

Jan
25
2018
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Mandatory death penalty a "colonial relic" and must go - Kenya's top court

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CARMEL RICKARD

IN its busy last week of the year, Kenya’s highest court delivered a landmark decision unanimously declaring that the country’s mandatory death penalty was unconstitutional, and setting it aside.

The supreme court of Kenya was pronouncing on a section of the penal code which provides that “any person convicted of murder shall be sentenced to death”.

Jan
24
2018

Copyright & A2K Issues - 24 January 2018

By Denise Nicholson

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