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...
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...
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...
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,...
