Cracking the Code: An End to Investigative Torture
IBJ India conducted latest Rights Awareness Campaign for Convicted Prisoners at Central Jail No.2 Tihar (New Delhi)
On 8th March 2013, International Bridges to Justice (India) endeavored to inform convicted inmates in Tihar Jail (New Delhi) about their rights, focusing on the right to appeal but also the entitlement to parole,...
A Legacy of Support for the Rule of Law in China
Published by Chinese Business Review January-March 2013 US-China Legal Cooperation Fund A Legacy of Support for the Rule of Law in China by Anne Phelan In the spring of 1999, when the US-China Legal Cooperation...
Satisfactory IBJ Legal Assistance at Muramyva court: Views of beneficiaries and partners
On Thursday, October 4th, 2012, a team from IBJ went to Muramvya with a purpose of evaluating the work of IBJ lawyers in the area. They were given the chance to assess what was...
IBJ successful legal assistance at MURAMVYA
Muramvya is one of seventeen provinces of Burundi, located about 48 km from Bujumbura, the capital city. One of the eleven prisons in Burundi, with a capacity of 100 prisoners, is located within this...
TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR LEGAL AID LAWYERS AND JAIL VISITING ADVOCATES DELHI, INDIA
International Bridges to Justice (India) in collaboration with Delhi State Legal Service Authority conducted a three day training workshop on 2nd – 4th June 2012 at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, for...
IBJ Singapore and the Singapore Cooperation Programme deliver first training in Laos
In partnership with the Singapore Cooperation Programme (SCP), IBJ’s Singapore Justice Training Centre delivered a criminal justice standards and skills training in Vientiane, Laos from December 12-16, 2011. Their first training outside Singapore. Participants...
First Paralegal Training for Prisoners in Jaipur Prison – A Successful Beginning!
A unique training was organized by IBJ with CHRI on 7th-9th October’2011, to train convicts as paralegals, with a special focus on pre-trial detention and speedy trial, so they may at some point pass...
His words against mine, with nothing more, were enough to send me to prison
In Burundi, women who’ve been accused of crime can be forced to endure horrific conditions of incarceration, even without any charges proved. Due to persistent cultural norms, women can often be at an even greater...