Photo and Video by Mar Costa JAKARTA. On Mondays, the lawyers and organizers of Lembaga Bantuan Hukum (LBH) Masyarakat gather in the meeting room of their small office to divide up the week’s work....
Above: Nana and other GYLA members convene with representatives of Georgian and international partner organizations to discuss the frailties of local governmental infrastructure/photo by Jasmine Van Deventer Speaking with Nana Chapidze about her project, Supporting...
For the week of July 5th, over 65 members of Burundi’s justice sector community gathered in Bujumbura to receive training in legal techniques. The training was conducted by IBJ Burundi Program in partnership with...
The Ministry of Justice held a three-day seminar in Pursat, this week to educate judicial officials about the new Penal Code. The event takes place as the government completes its codification of the Penal...
On June 12th, 2010 about thirty Criminal Defence attorneys gathered in Coimbatore, India to learn about “The Role of Lawyers for Effective Justice.” The following day, the conference was held in Mahe, India where...
LBH Masyarakat is one of Indonesia’s leading legal aid society, and a recipient of a 2009 JusticeMakers fellowship. Their work focuses on empowering communities and arming them with information bout how to claim their legal and human...
If JusticeMaker Rosselynn Jae Garcia de la Cruz had to name other agrarian reform lawyers in the Philippines, she would be stumped after listing a few names. Not because there doesn’t exist a network amongst agrarian...
As the sun slowly makes its way towards the horizon, all is quiet in the village of Nilantagan. The pervading atmosphere is one of defeat and frustration as the farmers here face yet another...
Victory seemed so near that day. After three visits to the Philippine National Police, two arrests and a trip to the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Lucena, the one thing that was left to...
While studying law at the University of Indonesia, Ajeng Larasati attended an advocacy training session led by lawyers and legal activists from an emerging legal aid institute in Jakarta. She was impressed by...
