The training consisted of highlighting various aspects of international human right treaties. Shahanur explained the concept, definition and origin of human rights, including details of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), whilst comparing...
The majority of prisons in Bangladesh have no medical facilities. Only eleven of 67 prisons have primary treatment centres which are staffed by a doctor; Kumilla, Sylehet, Mymensing, Jesore, Barisal and Kashmipur each have...
On October 19 JusticeMaker Harshi Perera successfully secured the release of a female inmate, Nilmini Pushpakumari. Nilmini was interred in Welikada women’s ward on charges of selling heroine. Upon arrest, Nilmini was sent to...
(October 20, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Kumari is a 23 years old mother of one child. She was in remand prison along with her one year and eight month old baby girl. They have...
On October 6, 2010, Mr. Mokhlesur Rahman Badal was arrested by the Drug Control Directorate police of the Ramna zone in the Dhaka metropolitan area. He was detained on the charge of being an...
Waqas Abid, Pakistani JusticeMaker fellow 2010, has been hard at work organising advisement of rights campaigns throughout Kasur, a district in the Punjab province. His work, focusing on spreading knowledge of legal right amongst...
H.M. Harshi Chitrangi Perera (Sri Lanka) is building a systematic and competent pool of legal resources to alleviate the problems in the Sri Lankan legal system: lack of respect for the rights of the...
2010 Asia JusticeMakers Fellow from Bangladesh Adv. Shahanur Islam has completed preparations on training materials on torture and human rights. Mr. Shahanur, who is also the executive director of the Bangladesh Institute of Human...
"After she returned to Sri Lanka the police arrested her husband and remanded him. He is in the male ward in the same prison. A week after her husband's arrest she too was arrested...
From August 8th to August 17th, IBJ held the Country and JusticeMakers Fellows Summit and second annual fundraising gala in Singapore, in celebration of the opening of its Singapore-based Justice Training Center. Country Fellows...
