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Chakwera Craves For A Malawi Free Of Human Rights Abuses President Chakwera (R) with the newly sworn in Commissioner Chijozi. Pic courtesy of State House Lilongwe, April 7, Mana: President Lazarus Chakwera has stressed the need for Malawi to reflect on human rights and take on the work of championing human rights as a practice by all. He said this during the swearing in ceremony of Commissioner Chikondi Chijozi into the Seventh Cohort of the Malawi Human Rights Commission on Wedn...

April 7, 2021 Wongani Chiuta - Nyasa Times 1 Comment President Lazarus Chakwera has urged commissioners of the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) to take on the work of championing human rights by ensuring that  they also practice human rights to match their language at the taxpayer funded human rights watchdog. President Chakwera: human  rights must be fought for, not just promoted. Chikondi Chijozi being sworn-in by MHRC executive secretary Habiba Osman President Chakwera with co...

Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Chairperson Justice Chifundo Kachale has joined some top officials in the country to recover from COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed lives of over 500 people in the country. The first to recover from the second wave of the deadly pandemic was Ken Kandodo Banda, a Cabinet Minister in Tonse Alliance government led by Dr. Lazarus Chakwera. Few days later, First Deputy Speaker Madalitso Kazombo also announced that he has recovered from the pandemic a week after te...

Introduction: a grim catalogue of grief and loss So today we were expected to receive the remains of our brother Benjamin Kachale and his wife Futhi at Chileka Airport; but due to some logistical hitches we have to wait till Friday the 29th January. This double funeral marks the culmination of the most distressing 10 days I have so far known in my rather brief sojourn on earth. If I kept a daily diary it would make the most morbid reading: on Monday 18th January 2021 we got the sad news in th...

January 28, 2021 Justice Dr. Chifundo Kachale 31 Comments Introduction: a grim catalogue of grief and loss So today we were expected to receive the remains of our brother Benjamin Kachale and his wife Futhi at Chileka Airport; but due to some logistical hitches we have to wait till Friday the 29th January. This double funeral marks the culmination of the most distressing 10 days I have so far known in my rather brief sojourn on earth. If I kept a daily diary it would make the most morbid...

President Lazarus Chakwera has joined hundreds of people who are paying tributes to the chairperson of Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) who succumbed to covid-19 on Thursday. In his condolence message, Chakwera says Semphere was elected to the position of chairperson of MHRC just a few months ago. “Reverend Semphere had dedicated his life to […]

LEGACY LIVES ON: Rev Semphere and Osman (Right) during a previous event MHRC Executive Secretary Habiba Osman has paid a tribute to Reverend Patrick Semphere who until his death was chairperson for MHRC and we are sharing with you her eulogy which she posted on her Facebook page; A month, before I joined MHRC, I was almost leaving Malawi to join the UN Women office in Pakistan. But one judge and lawyer, convinced me to apply for the Executive Secretary post advertised by Malawi Human Rights Co...

January 21, 2021 Duncan Mlanjira – Nyasa Times 17 Comments Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) chairperson Reverend Patrick Semphere  has died with coronavirus and tributes continue to pour in for the man — and all convey the deepest respect to the man of God, who also happens to be a journalist of great repute. Late Rev. Patrick Semphere Semphere, who died in the early hours of Thursday, January 21, was elected MHRC chairperson — the state human rights body — in March last ye...

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The taxpayer-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has observed with “great concern” the worsening violations of economic, social and cultural rights in 2020 amidst Covid-19 and has called for decisive leadership if Malawi is to recover better from virus pandemic shock. MHRC news conference MHRC news conference The remarks were made by MHRC Commissioner responsible for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights  Boniface Massa during a news conference organised by MHRC in Mzuzu on the eve...