JusticeMakers is delighted to announce that yesterday Patrick’s team reported the release of their first criminal defendant. The defendant was brought to the Lagos Magistrate Court on allegation of theft – he reportedly had stolen a...
Buhle’s team has reported a successful start to their project, having carried out two workshops educating community police on human rights. The first session was in the Mbhuleni township, where in the past local...
Today IBJ would like to highlight the efforts of one of our 2008 JusticeMakers competition finalists, Bandita Thapa. We recently heard that she was featured on the international radio program World in Progress. World in Progress is...
IBJ is happy to welcome John Tawanda Burumbo and Florence Chatira into its growing team in Zimbabwe. John is a young and dynamic Zimbabwean lawyer who has a sound knowledge of Zimbabwean criminal law,...
Thanks to the generosity of the Open Society Justice Initiative, I was able to spend nine days in Manila last December with several colleagues from the Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators. We went...
The International Bridges to Justice team would like to highlight the efforts of one of our 2008 JusticeMakers competition finalists, Evans Muswahili. Evans submitted a proposal with the hope of winning a US$5,000 fellowship...
IBJ is pleased to announce that Mr. Astère Muyango, a clinical legal aid expert, has been recruited as IBJ’s Burundi Fellow. Astère holds a Bachelor of Law from the Law University of Burundi. Astère...
Last Thursday, Joy and the CLEAR team made one of their weekly visits to Lang’ata Women’s Prison in Nairobi. Many of these women prisoners are too poor to afford legal representation and not informed on their legal rights. They...
Congratulations are in order for our 2008 JusticeMakers fellows who have been featured in a recent article in the Swazi Observer. The newspaper highlights the efforts of a local JusticeMakers fellow, Buhle Angelo Dube,...
IBJ is pleased to announce its renewed partnership with APRODH (Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons). This is an encouraging sign as it signals the start of the movement to...
