The Lesotho Government must address delayed Lesotho Highlands Development Authority compensation, tackle economic gender-based violence and femicide, while closing gaps in sexual and reproductive health rights.
On International Women’s Day, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and RISE project partners People’s Matrix and Seinoli Legal Centre call on the Government of Lesotho to take imme...
The strongest version of this narrative frames Lesotho’s governance failures as a systemic violation of women’s rights, where legal, economic, and health disparities intersect. The ICJ’s call is credible in highlighting tangible harms—land dispossession without compensation, judicial inefficiency enabling violence, and restrictive abortion laws—but it also assumes that policy reforms alone can dismantle deep-rooted inequities. The appeal to human rights frameworks is compelling, yet the absence ...