Buhle’s team recently visited the Kaphunga Village area to train community police. They were taught about private arrest, admissibility of evidence, presumption of innocence and the Swazi judicial system. They were given a warm welcome...
On Friday, 27th of January, Patrick secured the release of a couple who had been threatened and arrested by the police on false-allegations of assault. Acting as an agent to his landlord, one of...
Prior to our 2008 JusticeMakers competition, Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation published an article about one of our competition winners, Kenyan Magistrate Joy Masinde. The article, titled “She’s-Got-It Brenda Masinde”, provides terrific insight into Joy’s life prior to becoming...
IBJ is pleased to announce the opening of two new offices in Cambodia, a head office in Phnom Penh and a Defense Ressource Center in Takeo. We would like to let members of the...
That night we met with our partner Pierre. He was nervous about the training. He had seen our training plan and didn’t think it would work. He told us that Burundians are shy, reserved...
The training was to begin on Tuesday, May 20th and we went to court on Monday to get a glimpse of the legal system to prepare for the session. The courthouse had seen better...
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,...
