IBJ JusticeMaker 2010 Bijaya Chanda has managed to give basic legal training to 1,919 pre-trial detainees (known in India as under-trial prisoners, or UTPs) since the beginning of January 2011. Bijaya’s project focuses on...
Indonesian JusticeMaker 2010 Ajeng Larasati recently completed a five-day training session in Cipinang Detention Center, Jakarta. Between 8 – 13 March 2011, she educated five tamping (convicted prisoners who hold jobs in the...
Rasul Jafarov, JusticeMaker 2010 from Azerbaijan, has gone to new lengths in his quest to ensure that Azeri prisoners and their families are informed about and can execute their rights to early release....
On 1 April 2011, Ajeng Larasati (Indonesia) and Bijaya Chanda (India) took part in a JusticeMaker conference call and brainstormed with each other and IBJ staff on the best way to evaluate training materials...
On 22 February 2011, Ms. U. A. Somawathi was released from Welikada Prison, Colombo, after spending nine years in pre-trial detention. Her release was secured by Ms. Harshi Perera, JusticeMaker 2010.
Bijaya Chanda, JusticeMaker 2010 from India, has successfully been pursuing her bid to bring legal education to pre-trial detainees throughout West Bengal. Bijaya’s work focuses on the lower rung of India’s two-tier prison system....
1. Please introduce yourself, briefly. I am Lionel Weerasinghe, Correctional Professional Commissioner. I retired after serving 34 years in the governments Prison Department. My retiring position was Commissioner of Prisons (Welfare). I am a...
In his continuing bid to end torture in Bangladesh, JusticeMaker Shahanur Islam Saikot, has offered legal aid to ethnic and racial minorities in and around Dhaka. His latest case is the story of Shila...
Dec 9, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — JusticeMakers Fellow Dato’ Yasmeen Shariff met with the Director General (DG) of the Social Welfare Department of Malaysia (JKM), Dato’ Meme Zainal Rashid, to determine a policy...
A lawyer who doesn’t like to go to court, Sri Lanka JusticeMaker Harshi Chithrangi Perera is a human rights activist who spends her time helping torture victims. Despite the seriousness of her profession, Harshi comes...
