Chirwa, Vera Mlangazuwa
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שם ראשי (לועזית)
Chirwa, Vera Mlangazuwa
תאריך לידה
1932-05-26
מדינות קשורות
Malawi
מקצוע
Educators
Human rights workers
Lawyers
Politicians
מגדר
female
MARC
MARC
מקורות מידע
- 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)