IBJ is excited to announce its first ever Zimbabwe Criminal Defense Training which will be held in Harare, on August 28th, 29th and 30th 2009. This three-day skills-building training will be lead by an...
In the spring of last year, 3000 advisement of rights posters hit the floor. Printed the year before, the posters sought to highlight the rights of accused persons should they find themselves in police...
When operating within a nascent justice system, support can come in a variety of ways. Take Olivier Niyonizigiye, a 2008 JusticeMakers Competition Finalist. He took the entire week off work to assist the...
Gitega – Burundi. On Tuesday 7th July, following an invitation from Désiré Ntahomereye, a senior Judge whom we trained in Bujumbura, IBJ team headed to Gitega, Burundi’s second largest city. The purpose was to...
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...
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...
The idea of gathering IBJ Fellows, the backbone of the organization’s programs, had been forming for quite some time…it is now reality! From June 8th until June 11th, Abhijit Datta (Fellow from West Bengal,...
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,...
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...
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...
