Chirwa, Vera Mlangazuwa
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Name (Latin)
Chirwa, Vera Mlangazuwa
Date of birth
1932-05-26
Associated country
Malawi
Occupation
Educators
Human rights workers
Lawyers
Politicians
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Chirwa, Vera Mlangazuwa; political figure, lawyer, educator, human rights activist; born 1932 in Mzimba, Nyasaland (Malawi). She earned her master of law from University College, London (1967); worked at the Department of Lands, Domasi (1956), and was leader of League of Malawi Women (until 1960). She became a prosecutor in Ministry of Justice, Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika (1967); joined East African Community legal department; faculty at the University of Zambia, Lusaka (1977); was prosecuted for treason and sentenced to death (1982), but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment andwas released from prison in 1993. She established the Centre for Advice, Research and Education on Human Rights (CARER); was elected to the African Human Rights and People's Rights Commission (1999); became a member of Women's Voices and National Commission on Women)
- Prisons in Malawi, 2002:t.p. (Vera Mlangazuwa Chirwa)
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Vera Mlangazuwa Chirwa, 1960s
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Wikipedia description:
Vera Mlangazua Chirwa (born 26 May 1932) is a Malawi-born lawyer and human and civil rights activist. She was Malawi's first woman lawyer and a founding member of the Malawi Congress Party and the Nyasaland African Women's League. She fought for multiparty democratic rule in Malawi and was charged with treason, tried and sentenced to death by President Kamuzu Banda. She spent 12 years on death row. She was married to lawyer Orton Chirwa, Malawian Minister of Justice and Attorney General, who later died in prison.
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