November 5, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Reaching across the aisle to dialogue with government officials is not an inconsequential task when handling sensitive social issues. Activists can get ostracized, lawyers asked to step...
2010 JusticeMakers Fellow Dato' Yasmeen Shariff is working to reform juvenile justice in Malaysia.
On November 11 2010, JusticeMaker Waqas Abid, visited Kasur District’s Central Jail for a meeting with the prison’s superintendent and deputy superintendent, Mr. Intzar Wali Khan and Mr. Tahir. They briefed Waqas on the...
In the rural communities of Kikwanda, Uganda many people suffer from property rights violations but have nowhere to turn to for help. Farming villages are often illiterate and have difficulty understanding complex legal documents...
Rasul Jafarov, JusticeMaker 2010 from Azerbaijan, continues work on his innovative project to inform prisoners and their families about their rights to early release. The message, which is being spread through a telephone hotline,...
October 21, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The Kuala Lumpur Court for Children is located at the end of a long and narrow corridor in the Kuala Lumpur Courthouse, quite a daunting and complicated stretch...
Over the last couple of weeks 2010 JusticeMaker Fellow Muhammad Waqas Abid conducted 18 ‘Legal Literacy and Support of Victims’ seminars throughout the district of Kasur, in Punjab Province, Pakistan. Below you find can...
Ms. N. D. Anulawathi was released from Welikada Prison, outside Colombo, on 29th October 2010. Anulawathi was arrested for possession of heroin and incarcerated in the women’s ward for 26 months. Soon after the...
What began unexpectedly on a customary prison visit has transformed the last decade of Yasmeen’s life. A lawyer for 24 years, working mainly in financial, commercial and family law, 2010 JusticeMakers Fellow Yasmeen Shariff...
On September 4 2010, Mohamed Nowsan, a 28 year old father of one, was arrested and interred in Tengalle prison. He claims that the charges against him were fabricated by the police and that...
