Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has singled out underfunding to be the biggest blow for the institution to be able to propel safeguard people's fundamenta
Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) and the Legal Aid Bureau (LAB) have expressed concern over the treatment of pre-trial detainees by the police, the courts and the prison urging authorities to immediately intervene. In a joint statement issued on the sidelines of Africa Pre-Trial Detention Day which falls on April 25, the two institutions through
The goodwill the Tonse Alliance administration demonstrated initially to operationalise the Access to Information (ATI) Act appears to have dissipated as Treasury has for two consecutive financial years not allocated resources for its implementation. The development has worried key industry players such as Media Institute for Southern Africa (Misa) Malawi chapter and Parliament who are
F rail young men chained to sickbeds at Thyolo District Hospital personify surging malnutrition feared to have claimed a life at Bvumbwe Prison last week. The development coincides with a Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) probe into claims that inmates on anti-retroviral therapy at Zomba Central Prison in the old capital are surviving on their
The Independent Complaints Commission (ICC), an agency that looks into the conduct of the police, is set to start a fresh probe in May on women and gi.