JusticeMakers fellow Robert Kibaya has been continuing his work on the Rural Communities Criminal Justice Awareness Project (RCC-JAP). He’s operating in Kikwanda, Uganda to repair damaged relations between the criminal justice system actors and...
In the rural communities of Kikwanda, Uganda, many people suffer from human rights violations without anywhere to turn to for help with their grievance. This issue had not been confronted before because victims of...
International Bridges to Justice’s (IBJ) 2010 Asia JusticeMakers Competition, brought to you by the Lien Institute for Social Innovation, will search for and fund grassroots initiatives in Asian communities to promote criminal justice and...
On Tuesday, September 22nd, The Committee for Social Justice – JusticeMaker Ram Kumar Bhandari’s organization – as well as SANGYA (another NGO based in Kathmandu) collaborated to host a discussion on the review of Nepal’s transitional justice...
On Friday September 18th, JusticeMaker Ram Kumar Bhandari conducted an essay competition at the Ganga Milan secondary school in Chandisthan VDC of Lamjung district. The topic of the competition was “The Role of Youth Students in Controlling Social...
In his never-ending pursuit of justice for the families and victims of Nepal’s Armed Conflict, JusticeMaker Ram Kumar Bhandari makes frequent and efficient use of Nepal’s various media. Ram gears most of his media...
On August 30th, family members and representatives from the human rights community, including JusticeMaker Ram Kumar Bhandari, gathered in Pokhara, Nepal to observe International Day of the Disappeared. Each year this day is recognized...
“I don’t fear another man killing me here.” -Wellington (Photo by Michelle Ferng) Wellington is a ‘recuperando,’ an inmate in a progressive Brazilian prison known as APAC (Associação de Proteção e Assistência aos Condenados)....
Seven months into their program to combat police torture and fight for human rights in the traditional courts Buhle Dube and his team of JusticeMakers have started to look to the future. After receiving...
Above: Two security guards escort a prisoner to his trial at Forum, the civil and criminal courthouse in Divinopolis, Brazil. He is accompanied by Alessandro Garcia Silva (last photo, second left), a criminal prosecutor...
