On a cold Saturday morning Buhle Dube and the rest of the Swaziland Justice Makers team journey to Ngwenya to lead a workshop on prisoners’ rights and the legal system for community police. A...
These were the first words we heard upon arrival in Manzini, Swaziland’s largest city. Emerging from our minibus into the swarming chaos of the bus rank we found Gugu Simelane, a fourth year law...
Innocent and John’s hard work and successful efforts in petitioning for bail in Norton Court ( 40 kilometers away from Harare) brought fifteen prisoners to freedom last month, previously held in Remand prison in...
The hearing of Patrick’s first criminal defendant was held on the 15th of May. The defendant, who was been accused of stealing a mobile phone handset, had previously been released on bail. At the...
The 2008 edition of the JusticeMakers competition was an undisputable success in Burundi. The large number of projects from Burundi is a testimonial of the vitality of human rights community in the country. As...
To increase membership in the JusticeMakers online community, Tahir and the Legal Rights Forum (LRF) have started advertising by distributing JusticeMakers cards at the Karachi Bar Association and other district bar associations. They have...
In preparing for the inauguration of IBJ’s Regional Center in Pursat, our team in Cambodia hosted a criminal justice roundtable event. On April 20th, a total of seventy two participants gathered at the Kampong...
On the 29th March of this year, the Legal Rights Forum (LRF) hosted a conference on issues concerning juvenile delinquency. A number of important NGOs and civil society organizations attended, including the NGO Resource...
GENEVA. Over 30 criminal defence lawyers will undertake a training programme in West Bengal, near Kolkata. The training will be co-hosted by International Bridges to Justice (Geneva, Switzerland) and MASUM, a community organizing and...
Aziz Saliba, our JusticeMakers fellow from Brazil, has been awarded an Arthur Helton Fellowship from the American Society of International Law. Helton Fellowships provide financial assistance in the form of “micro-grants” for law students...
