Karachi Police Station Visits
Legal Rights Forum arranged to visit a few police stations in Karachi today. Two car-fulls of attorneys and I pull up to the Artillery Maidan Police Station in one of the high security areas in...
Meeting the forgotten ones in Mpimba Central Prison
On Friday 26th June, IBJ team headed to Mpimba, the country’s largest detention center, located right outside of Bujumbura. The Director, a woman in her middle age, sincerely concerned about the situation in her...
JusticeMaker Buhle Dube’s Views on Human Rights, Africa, and Being a Pilot.
During a free hour in a hectic weekend of workshops Buhle Dube, JusticeMakers grant-winner and law professor at the University of Swaziland, leaned forward and described how he decided to become a lawyer.”Well I...
Photographs from the First Few Weeks with the JusticeMakers Project at CLEAR Kisumu
I have been working in Kisumu, Kenya with CLEAR(Christian Legal Education Aid and Research)-Kisumu, a JusticeMaker project, for three weeks now. I have been waiting patiently for excellent internet so that I can upload...
When Rwandan Defense Attorneys Gather…
IBJ has just completed an enormously successful criminal defense training in Kigali, Rwanda. Led by a dynamic tandem of two defense attorneys, Mehdi Benbouzid and Anita Mugeni, this training will long remain as a...
Torture and police abuse take front stage during workshops with Swazi police
During workshops Buhle Dube and his JusticeMakers team held last weekend complaints from community police uncovered incidents of mob justice and torture. The team was in southern Swaziland at the villages of Matsanjeni in...
Pondicherry Training Focuses on Current Challenges and Hopes for the Future
The third session of IBJ’s training programme in Pondicherry India was designed to encourage communication and discussion. The participants were divided into groups of five and asked to identify all the procedural errors they...
Successful Training Session for Legal Aid Lawyers in Pondicherry, India
On Friday 19th June, IBJ India Fellow Ajay Verma and San Francisco Public defender Manohar Raju, along with the Union Territory of Pondicherry Legal Services Authority, conducted a training session for legal aid lawyers...
Swazi JusticeMaker shares achievements and difficulties with local lawyers
This past Friday 2008 JusticeMakers Fellow Buhle Dube held an event at local restaurant Quatermain’s with Swazi and international lawyers. Buhle hoped to spread word of the successes and challenges he and his volunteer...
Karachi Youthful Offender Remand Home Visit
Today we have a visit to the remand home, where Legal Rights Forum wants to establish a Juvenile Rehabilitation (Career Training) Center. In the cab we go, and we drive about 20 minutes outside...