On 12 May 2022, the South African Constitutional Court heard its first ever copyright discrimination matter brought by Blind SA, an organisation serving the interests of people with print and visual disabilities, on the basis that South Africa’s copyright laws unfairly discriminate against them and violate several constitutional rights.

On 24 March 2022, the Kenya High Court delivered a momentous ruling on the right to abortion in PAK & another v Attorney General & 3 others . The decision sets a tempo in safeguarding women’s rights not only in Kenya but across the world.

In an address on 28 March 2022, President Salva Kiir of South Sudan reiterated his opposition to the Hybrid Court for South Sudan (HCSS)—a judicial body which, if established, would have jurisdiction to prosecute those responsible for serious international crimes that have occurred in South Sudan.

COVID-19 may be one of the most devastating pandemics of our generation but it is unlikely to be the last. The TRIPS Waiver remains a crucial step to ending the pandemic and its disproportionate effects on African countries and the global South.

Covid-19’s potentially devastating impact motivated unrivalled global efforts to develop vaccines, which the World Health Organization (WHO) identified as the most effective protection against the disease. Although largely viewed positively, there has been notable mistrust and hesitancy due to concerns about health-related risks associated with Covid-19 vaccines. This has raised questions in the employment context as some employers have quickly moved towards making vaccines mandatory.

An analysis of the Ugandan Parliament’s latest attempt to further criminalise consensual same-sex relations reveals the shortfalls of the Sexual Offences Bill, 2019.

In “Re-Invigorating Ubuntu Through Water”, Ndjodi Ndeunyema argues for the existence of a court enforceable human right to water that is implied from the right to life in Article 6 of the Namibian Constitution.

Ndjodi Ndeunyema’s book “Re-Invigorating Ubuntu Through Water” is the lawyer’s version of the aphorism that “water is life”.

In the 25 years since the South African Constitution was signed into law, what progress have we made — and what will it take to attain the constitutional vision of a free, equal and dignified life for all?

As Tunisia is placed under a state of emergency, the survival of a framework of fundamental rights will be critical for addressing the inequality and poverty that prompted the 2011 popular uprising and culminated in Tunisia’s new 2014 Constitution.

Eswatini has been the staging area for human rights violations since the colonial era…

Former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga writes about the role of an independent judiciary as the custodian of constitutional democracy in Kenya.