FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 4 December 2019 On 5 December 2019, the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (“ISLA”) and Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (“KELIN”) will return to court...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 27 NOVEMBER 2019 On Friday 29 November 2019, the Supreme Court of Kenya will rule on ISLA’s amicus curiae application. The earlier Court ruled that once judgment is issued, a court...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 23 OCTOBER 2019 On 24 and 25 October 2019, the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (“ISLA”) and Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (“KELIN”) will make...
Over the next two days, ISLA will be hosting an expert advisory meeting on women in the criminal justice system. The experts joining us have been drawn from academia and practise. On Thursday and Friday, 20 and 21...
Tomorrow and Saturday, ISLA’s Women’s Land and Property Rights Programme will be hosting an Expert Advisory Meeting on cohabitation relationships, its legal recognition, particularly in African countries and the consequences, thereof, for women’s access to land and property. Bios...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 25 APRIL 2019 On 25 April 2019, the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA)and Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (KELIN) submitted an individual communication against...
CALLING FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO “LITIGATION CONVERSATIONS” QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER THEME: Amicus Curiae | SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 AUGUST 2018 Exploring the ways in which the role of an amicus in human rights litigation has served to protect and promote human rights Please...
6 February 2018 Johannesburg, South Africa PRESS STATEMENT On 5 December 2017, the Constitutional and Human Rights Division of the High Court in Nairobi admitted the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) as amicus curiae in...
27 October 2017 JOHANNESBURG PRESS STATEMENT The Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa confirms that three of its lawyers who were arrested in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania on Tuesday 17 October 2017, and placed in unlawful detention from Friday 20...
26 October 2017 For immediate release: PRESS STATEMENT It will be recalled that a legal consultation convened by the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) and Community Health Education Services and Advocacy (CHESA) was raided by Tanzanian police...