Information in English
WLSA – Women and Law in Southern Africa – Mozambique
The eradication of child marriages as a challenge for the full protection of children’s rights
Civil society deeply concerned about attack on Mozambique human rights defender and threats to press freedom in Mozambique
Read and/or download the statement
The statement is also on SALC’s web-page.
Now available in English:
“Economic Corporations and Expropriation: The case of girls, women and resettled communities in Moatize district“
summary of the new book
UDHINDO: In Defence of Human Rights
and the Environment
In Moatize civil society organisations launched a campaign to protect the environment and fight the domestic violence that violates the rights of women and girls, affected by the coal mining industry. Read the Manifesto.
April 7 – Mozambican Women’s Day
New project focuses on the situation of women in Moatize
UNHCR worried about Human rights’ violations in Mozambique
Read the Press briefing note
Police repression against street action that was demanding an end to violence against school girls:
Human rights activism under attack?
Who’s afraid of children’s rights?
Women and Home Care in an HIV and AIDS Context
African women applaud new “2030 Agenda”
African Women Demand an End to Abuse
The UN General Assembly adopted on 21 November a Resolution on Child, Early and Forced Marriage. More information can be found on the Girls Not Brides website.
New book now available in English: Rites of Initiation in the Current Context
Mozambique Tackles its Twin Burden of Cervical Cancer and HIV
by Mercedes Sayagues – 31 Oct 2014
Check out the slide show as well!
Three short articles about the Penal Code reform:
- When justice becomes an issue of class
- What is a choice if you can’t choose?
- Homosexuality decriminalized in Mozambique!
New abortion law shows Mozambique’s commitment to women’s reproductive rights
by Mercedes Sayagues – 01 Oct 2014
How Mozambique is Coping with AIDS
Article and video by Mercedes Sayagues (IPS)
UN Population Award Celebrates Champion of Rural Women’s Health in Mozambique
Recognition for Aldo Marchesini – by Mercedes Sayagues for IPS (23 June)
Maternal mortality in Mozambique: ‘Who wants to give birth here?’
Mozambique is one of the most dangerous places in the world to have a child. Mercedes Sayagues visits rural clinics to find out why. (Daily Maverick, 19 June)
Amnesty International on the revision of the Penal Code:
Partial Victory on Mozambique Rape Laws, But the Fight Isn’t Over
Mozambican Parliament and the Penal Code: Saga continues
by Mercedes Sayagues. Daily Maverick (5 May 2014)
The strange case of the Mozambican Parliament
When women vote against women’s rights. Daily Maverick (24 March 2014)
Discriminatory Penal Code Articles Under Fire
(AIM 18 March)
Press Release
14 March 2014 – Civil society organisations issue a press release denouncing violations of human rights of women and children in the Penal Code Review Bill, now under discussion in the National Assembly. Click here to read the press release.
More about the Penal Code now under discussion in Parliament:
Punishment for sexually raped children and women
International recognition for Aldo Marchesini
2014 United Nations Population Award for the Italian priest who is fighting to improve women’s health
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Omitidas – brochure about obstetric fistula (in Portuguese)
Obstetric fistula: a prison where no woman should live
More articles:
Child Rape: Perceptions of Child Rape and Denunciation Contexts
Sexual Violence and Child Rape, a Discussion of Concepts
Part 1 and 2 of a series of articles on the results of a research project on child rape in Maputo
Briefing for journalists:
Sexual violence happens daily for Mozambican women and girls
28-29 November 2012:
National Conference on Gender Violence
WLSA Mozambique, together with several other organizations, organized a National Conference on Gender Violence which took place in Maputo, on November 28 and 29, 2012
Press Review:
Child marriages same as apartheid – Tutu
No safe choice
Slideshow shows the consequences of illegal abortion in Mozambique
September 28 – Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion
Unsafe Abortion Makes News
as Mozambique Prepares for a Change in Law
Article by Mercedes Sayagues for the International Centre For Journalists about unsafe abortion in Mozambique, at a time when Parliament prepares to discuss a new law that will decriminalize abortion
Who wants to give birth here?
Dreadful clinics underpin maternal mortality in Mozambique
Pemba rape case on VoA News:
Mozambique Rape Case Pits Tradition Against Law
The Talibans of Mozambique…
The rape of a woman by 17 men is justified in the name of respect for the tradition…
A group of organizations sent a letter to the daily Notícias with regard to a news item about a case of violation of women’s human rights, condemning the leniency of the columnist. The letter was sent on January 20 and was published on January 28.
On February 9 an article appeared in the South African press:
Gang rape exposes gruesome attacks on Mozambican women
Information in English
WLSA (Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust) is a regional non-governmental organisation (NGO) that conducts research about women’s human rights in seven countries of Southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Information in English about the organisation can be found on the website of WLSA’s regional head office, situated in Lusaka, Zambia.
Portuguese is Mozambique´s official language and it is the language used in our publications and on most of this website. However, much of our material is also available in English – and we will be adding more on a regular basis.
About WLSA Mozambique
Books published by WLSA Mozambique
WLSA Mozambique decided to make its publications available to the public by putting them on-line as PDF files.
