A recent report in The Times of India highlighted that more than 35 juveniles in Bhopal alone are waiting for trial for serious crimes such as rape or murder. With absolutely no mechanism in...
In India, one of the most basic Common Law principles is “better that ten guilty escape than that one innocent suffer.” While the Indian criminal justice system is based along these lines, trial courts...
By Garima Tiwari Protecting and promoting the health rights as well as legal human rights of the high-risk and vulnerable community is a prerequisite for dealing with the problem of HIV/AIDS and helping to...
More than 300 men, women, and young adults attended a JusticeMakers programme on HIV/AIDS in the industrial Mandideep area. Protecting and promoting the health rights as well as legal human rights of the community...
On 8th March 2013, International Bridges to Justice (India) endeavored to inform convicted inmates in Tihar Jail (New Delhi) about their rights, focusing on the right to appeal but also the entitlement to parole,...
We send you warm greetings from Nimba County, rural Liberia. Greetings! March 9 marks a major milestone for the defence and rights of the affected persons in our region — a JusticeMakers organized workshop...
When IBJ first met Makara in 2009, IBJ’s provincial lawyer in Pursat successfully defended him against a murder charge. The prosecution appealed and as is usual practice, he remained in detention until an appeal...
International Bridges to Justice is delighted to congratulate JusticeMakers Fellow Yasmeen Muhammad Shariff, as she becomes the first Malaysian to be elected to the United Nations’ Committee of the Rights of the Child (CRC)...
Écrit par 2012 JusticeMakers Fellow Charles Mugaruka Mupenda. « Malgré l’extrême pauvreté, les conséquences des guerres à répétition, la grande discrimination et le défaut d’intérêt des acteurs, il est possible d’accorder une protection juridique effective...
The JusticeMakers Team is incredibly proud of the diversity and passion that the new 2012 Fellows bring to the JusticeMakers Community. These Fellows come from ten countries, spanning four continents. Therefore, each Fellow faces...
