Malawian state’s rhetoric belies reality – The Mail & Guardian

Malawian state’s rhetoric belies reality – The Mail & Guardian

On 10 December, 77 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Malawi’s second vice president Enock Kamzingeni Chihana made a familiar declaration about human rights being one of the country’s “everyday essentials”. But in districts like Mulanje, Mangochi and Machinga, where women walk for hours to reach a health post, girls marry before they understand what marriage means and  corruption siphons away public funds meant to keep people…