On October 20th, judges, prosecutors, prison officials, police officers, members of the National Assembly and the Senate from Rutana province and lawyers and civil society representatives from Bujumbura came together to discuss the innovations...
Sri Lankan JusticeMaker Fellow Harshi Perera organized a Public Legal Rights Awareness Session with former pre-trial detainees and their families. The two-hour discussion was held on November 13 in the Janasansadaya sub-office in the...
JusticeMaker Nana Chapidze has found numerous successes in her project to increase public awareness of juvenile rights in Georgia. A key component of this has been the ability of her organization (Georgia Young Lawyers...
Since beginning her project in June 2010, JusticeMaker Nana Chapidze has made great strides in her bid to raise public awareness of juvenile rights in Georgia.
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...
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...
