Special Edition RALF Newsletter: African Feminist Standpoint Issue #5
Welcome to Issue #5: The Cost of Freedom Welcome to issue 5 of the African Feminist Standpoint! The Cost of Freedom In November 2018 CAL launched the very first issue of…
Welcome to Issue #5: The Cost of Freedom Welcome to issue 5 of the African Feminist Standpoint! The Cost of Freedom In November 2018 CAL launched the very first issue of…
Sexual rights on the continent, the 20th anniversary of the Durban declaration and HRC38 - these are the topics that we will be covering in this edition of the newsletter which focuses…
Many credit the Stonewall Riots, which took place from 28 June - 3 July 1969 as the beginning of the LGBTI movement’s public fight to end discrimination on the basis of…
Originally published in the Daily Maverick by Fadzai Muparutsa The ability of feminist funders to continue doing transformative, innovative and subversive work is likely to be severely hampered by the…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. The Coalition of African Lesbians salutes the recent decision of Botswana’s Gaborone High Court to strike Section 164, effectively decriminalising same-sex relations in Botswana. We would like…
By holding its 64th session in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) demonstrates again its lack of commitment to the protection and the…
CAL attended the latest sessions of the UN Human Rights Council that was held in Geneva from 25 February to 22 March 2019. Below is a collection of our social…
A lot of work was done prior to 2008, mostly by women’s rights organisations to raise sexual orientation and gender identity and in particular the concerns of lesbians and bisexual…
(French follows). JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. The Coalition of African Lesbians is deeply disappointed by the recent decision of the African Court on an advisory opinion brought by CAL and the…
About the Coalition of African Lesbians The Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) was established in 2003. The Coalition is committed to raising consciousness amongst and strengthening activism and leadership of…