Despite their critical role in consolidating Malawi’s democracy and human rights culture, the operating environment for HRDs remains hostile and ‘obstructed’. HRDs have constantly been a target of violent attacks by state ...

Worldwide, pretrial detention is overused such that in some countries like Nigeria, awaiting trial detainees (ATDs) far outnumber convicted prisoners. Detained for months and sometimes years, ATDs in Nigeria are housed in ...

African governments have been under pressure to develop their economies and as such have opened up their resources to all forms of FDI. In this regard, the continent continues to be the foremost destination for foreign ...

The effects of the historical exclusion of African women from positions of leadership as well as the public/private dichotomy have led to a phenomenon in which women are underrepresented in decision-making bodies. The ...

This dissertation is divided into five Chapters. The first chapter provides the background and thereafter justifies the need for this research. It also includes the research questions, the methodology employed in undertaking ...

Law and happiness are difficult concepts to define, and the relationship between the two is more so. Law’s happiness asks whether the law and its many subsets and impacts have a bearing on happiness. The current global ...

This dissertation provides an overview of the law regarding online violence in Malawi. It critically analyses the effectiveness of the law in the protection of women from different forms of online violence in Malawi by ...

As a result of frequent and flagrant human rights violations by most post-independence African regimes (particularly before the 1990s), the new or substantially revised post-1990 African constitutions entrenched fundamental ...