The Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has highlighted the significance of strategic litigation in advancing gender equality and protecting human rights in the country.
The Independent Complaints Commission (ICC) says it has completed handling 73 out of 420 public complaints against police officers received since 2021.
The Youth and Society (YAS) has turned up the heat on the Malawi Prison Service, demanding full disclosure of the identities and profiles of 21 inmates recently pardoned by President Lazarus Chakwera as part of the Easter clemency exercise.
Brave and caring men, faith leaders and chiefs in Traditional Authority (T/A) Tambala in Dedza district are mobilizing their subjects to tame twin problems of suicide and violence targeting girls and women in the area.
Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM) has trained Civil Society Organizations and media practitioners based in Karonga on gender mainstreaming and Gender Based Violence (GBV) in humanitarian response.
Local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have called for concerted efforts to eliminate stigma and discrimination, which sometimes result in violent attacks against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) individuals.
Tikondane Care for Children on/off the Streets (TCCS) – a Catholic-based charity organization advancing the welfare of street-connected children in Lilongwe – has decried negative publicity on the children on the streets.
Minister of Gender Community Development and Social Welfare, Jean Sendeza has cautioned perpetrators of Gender Based Violence (GBV) that the laws will not spare anyone found abusing women and children in the country.
Founder and current president of the Citizens for Transformation (CFT), Timothy Pagonachi Simbega Mtambo, on Saturday bounced back to the podium and immediately seized the opportunity to warn university students in Malawi to guard against being used as instruments of violence by greedy politicians.