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The wheels of international criminal justice grind slowly for Hissène Habré

Hissène Habré was the president of Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990. He has been living in exile in Senegal since 1990. He was indicted there in 2000 and is under house arrest under...

SA: Mogoeng Mogoeng: Address by Chief Justice, at the 2013 Annual Human Rights Lecture of the Stellenbosch Law Faculty, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town (25/04/2013)

SPEECH

When all others fail in their obligations to give practical expression to the rule of law, human rights and the constitutional aspirations of all the people in any democracy, that constitutional...

The right to cultural freedom and forced marriages in SA: What the Constitution giveth, the Constitution taketh away

CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

Recently the media was flooded with reports of a 13-year-old girl who was married off to a sangoma (57) in an attempt to alleviate her apparent struggle with the ancestral spirits and cure her of...

ANC: Statement by the African National Congress National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal, on the appeal findings of Julius Malema, Floyd Shivambu and Sindiso Magaqa (24/04/2012)

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INTRODUCTION
This announcement is being made pursuant to the ANC Constitution which requires that a public announcement of the outcome of the disciplinary proceeding be made.

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DA: Statement by Geordin Hill-Lewis, Democratic Alliance deputy shadow minister of public service and administration, calling on the Law Society to investigate Michael Hulley (08/11/2011)

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I will today be writing to the Law Society of the Northern Provinces to lodge a complaint of unprofessional conduct against Michael Hulley, President Jacob Zuma’s newly appointed legal...

Cosatu: Submission to the JSC, by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, on the nomination of Mogoeng for the post of Chief Justice (03/09/2011)

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1 INTRODUCTION

COSATU notes that on 20 August 2011 the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) resolved to interview incumbent Constitutional Court judge, Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, for the...

Schools and Armed Conflict – A Global Survey of Domestic Laws and State Practice Protecting Schools from Attack and Military Use (July 2011)

HUMAN RIGHTS

This report examines domestic laws and military policies in 56 countries around the world. Governments have been slow to update and align their domestic legislation with the explicit prohibitions...

Cosatu: Statement by Patrick Craven, Congress of South African Trade Unions spokesperson, on the Protection of Information Bill (31/05/2011)

Statements

The Congress of South African Trade Unions is deeply concerned that the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee has begun clause-by-clause voting on a revised version of the Protection of Information...

Criminalisation of wilful transmission of HIV: sitting on the fence?

IDASA

In August this year the eyes of the world were upon an HIV-positive German pop star found guilty of having unprotected sex with her ex-partner and infecting him with HIV. Nadja Benaissa, 28, was...

Colonial Sodomy: Homophobic threat within common law

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

The majority of countries around the world that still criminalise homosexuality are former British colonies or territories. Sodomy laws are a common feature in 16 of the 18 African Commonwealth...

Libazi v S (424/09) [2010] ZASCA 91

SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL

Evidence - admissibility of hearsay evidence in terms of s 3(1)(c) of Law of Evidence Amendment Act 45 of 1988: right to challenge evidence - integral to constitutional guarantee of fair trial;...

SA Metal & Machinery Co (Pty) Ltd v S (398/09) [2010] ZASCA 81

SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL

Criminal law – Corporate accused – whether the conviction of the corporate accused based on the conduct of employees other than those expressly mentioned in the charge-sheet is correct –...

South Africans Fighting for International Criminal Justice

INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

The prospect of prosecutions for grave international crimes is an important weapon in the arsenal of human rights protections. The past two decades have seen important developments in this regard....

UN: Ban: Remarks at the commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (17/07/2008)

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Date: 17/07/2008
Source: United Nations
Title: UN: Ban: Remarks at the commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
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SA: de Lange: Second Reading of Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Bill (20/11/2007)

2007

Address by Advocate Johnny de Lange, MP, Deputy Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development, on the Second Reading: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Bill, in the...

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