Follow JusticeMakers Kenya fellow, Evans, on Twitter.
Evans Muswahili, JusticeMakers fellow in Vihiga district, Kenya, has a twitter account. Follow him, emuswahili, and his JusticeMakers project developments at: http://twitter.com/
Ugandan JusticeMakers project is launched and ceremony is attended by important government official.
JusticeMakers fellow Robert Kibaya has been continuing his work on the Rural Communities Criminal Justice Awareness Project (RCC-JAP). He’s operating in Kikwanda, Uganda to repair damaged relations between the criminal justice system actors and...
JusticeMakers fellow Robert Kibaya is monitoring and evaluating criminal justice procedures in rural Kikwanda, Uganda.
In the rural communities of Kikwanda, Uganda, many people suffer from human rights violations without anywhere to turn to for help with their grievance. This issue had not been confronted before because victims of...
IBJ and the Kigali Bar Association on tunes in Rwanda
Under the leadership of IBJ Rwanda fellow, John Bosco Bugingo, IBJ has conducted last Sunday 22nd November its third radio rights awareness program on Contact FM. The President of the Kigali Bar Association, Me...
IBJ India Conducts Panel Discussion on “Access to Justice: Common Hurdles & Challenges”
IBJ-India and Delhi High Court legal service committee (DHCLSC) organized a Panel discussion on 25.9.2009. The topic of the discussion was “Access to Justice: common Hurdles & Challenges”. Senior Police officers from Delhi Police,...
Driving national justice institutions to prioritize criminal justice
IBJ-Zimbabwe Fellows, Innocent Maja and John Burombo, recently held a roundtable discussion with officers from the Legal Aid Directorate (hereafter “LAD”), the government entity responsible for legal aid, with a view to identify ways...
Sparking coordinated answers to pre-trial detention and educating citizens about their legal rights in Gitega
From October 14th to 16th IBJ left Bujumbura to head to Gitega, Burundi second largest city, to pursue its roundtable program and rights awareness campaigns. We already did the two hours drive in July...
IBJ Presents the 2010 Asia JusticeMakers Competition: Implementing Criminal Defense Reform in Asia
International Bridges to Justice’s (IBJ) 2010 Asia JusticeMakers Competition, brought to you by the Lien Institute for Social Innovation, will search for and fund grassroots initiatives in Asian communities to promote criminal justice and...
Radio programs to bring legal awareness in Rwanda
It is widely agreed that most Rwandan citizens are not aware of their legal rights and responsibilities. This is especially true for individuals in rural communities. Because radio is the lifeblood of many rural...
IBJ Gitega Roundtable featured on National Burundian Radio “Isanganiro”
Following up on the resounding success of Bubanza roundtable in late July 2009, a new roundtable discussion on the theme of pre-trial detention has been conducted, last week, at Gitega, the country’s second largest...