African Court Challenges States To Rethink The Basis Of Their Criminal Laws
By Anneke Meerkotter, Litigation Director, Southern Africa Litigation Centre On 4 December 2020, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued an Advisory Opinion which challenges the very notions which underpin our class-based societies. The African Court stated that there is no reasonable basis for a law that distinguishes between so-called ‘vagrants’ and the […]
