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Civil Society Coalition on Migration (CCM) Statement | #WorldRefugeeDay2025

20/06/2025
STATEMENT ON WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2025June 20, 2025Theme: Solidarity with Refugees A Moment of Reckoning for Malawi’s Refugee Commitments On this World Refugee Day, the Civil Society Coalition on Migration…
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The Survivor Behind the Accused

18/06/2025
In 2023, TrialWatch, the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA), and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law International Human Rights Clinic (USC IHRC) interviewed…
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The new prison Bill: What has changed?

03/04/2025
The Prisons Act in Malawi was enacted into law in 1956. When Malawi adopted the 1994 Constitution, which entrenched the Bill of Rights with clear provisions on the rights of…
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Learn from Kenya’s prisons

17/09/2024
Overcrowding. Malnutrition. Poor sanitation. Low access to healthcare. Challenges keep piling for inmates in Malawi’s prisons, but human rights defender VICTOR CHAGUNYUKA MHANGO says the country’s policymakers should look no …
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Parliament adopts report to review vagrancy offences in Penal code

05/09/2024
On 4 September 2024, the Parliament of Malawi adopted the report by the legal affairs committee to review vagrancy offences in the Penal Code. This follows a 2017 judgement by…
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Deport immigrants within 30 days—court

31/07/2024
The Nation 31 July, 2024 By Llyod Chitsulo Human rights organisations, including the Malawi Legal Aid Bureau, have praised a High Court ruling that gave 30 days for the State…
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Malawi High Court upholds protection of undocumented immigrants from arbitrary and indefinite detention.

30/07/2024
30 July 2024, Blantyre – Yesterday,  the Mzuzu High Court ordered that 30 days should be the reasonable time envisaged under the Immigration Act within which deportation of undocumented immigrants…
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Long, winding road for Prison Bill

22/07/2024
The Daily Times 22 July, 2024 By Thomas Kachere Patricio, now 45, does not remember the year 2003. “I was in prison that year, when prison conditions were bad. This…