The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) and entered into force in June 2002. Article 5.1 of the treaty lists the crime of...
On Friday, May 14 and Saturday, May 15, the IBJ Zimbabwe Team hosted a successful advanced defender skills training in Harare, Zimbabwe. Approximately fifty Harare-based lawyers attended the continuation of last years training, including...
Grassroots criminal justice implementation efforts will be given a kick-start across Asia over the next year as the eleven winners of the 2010 JusticeMakers each receive US$5000 seed funding to realize their innovative criminal...
In addition to street law campaigns, IBJ Burundi, in partnership with APRODH, has begun running legal rights campaigns in Burundian prisons. In Bubanza prison, on 29 March 2010, IBJ Intern Celesta Duivenvoorde explaining women...
Eight of the $5,000 cash awards for the 2010 Asia JusticeMakers Competition will be selected by a panel of JusticeMakers’ Judges (we have recently received an additional $5,000 grant) who will rate each project...
Article 22 of the Constitution: (1) “No person who is arrested shall be detained in custody without being informed, as soon as may ne, of the grounds for such arrest nor shall he be...
On the 22nd of April, IBJ Burundi held, in partnership with APRODH, a roundtable on the issue of the presumption of innocence. This roundtable gathered thirty stakeholders of the criminal justice system of Ngozi,...
Great news for Burundian detainees: on the 24th of March, the President, Pierre Nkurunziza, circulated a decree which stipulates the immediate release of hundreds of prisoners. The decree targets several categories of detainees, among...
In Zimbabwe, the court is required, in certain instances, to hand down a death sentence. Under the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act of Zimbabwe, this mandatory death sentence is imposed upon all persons convicted...
A 14 year-old girl is kidnapped by three males as a means of revenge against her family because her father refused her hand in marriage to one of her 30 year-old male captures. For...
