Empowering IBJ legal rights awareness event for Delhi inmates
Contributed by Sumit Sonkar In yet another endeavor to facilitate, the empowerless IBJ India has reached out to the...
Groundbreaking legal rights seminar for HIV/ AIDS community in Russia
This past March, Russian JusticeMakers Fellow Tatyana Kochetkova organized a seminar in her country on legal questions related to...
Mother and child find protection thanks to IBJ in Liberia
The most remarkable action of IBJ in Liberia occurred in mid-May, when JusticeMakers Fellow C. Christian Zarweah was informed...
Examining prisoners’ living conditions in Nigeria
JusticeMakers Fellow Henry Nwaka, from Nigeria, is pleased to let IBJ fans know that he is nearing the completion...
Sick Detainees Supported in Burundi
Lawyer and JusticeMaker Fellow Gatavu Audace, from Burundi, has been negotiating a partnership with the Network of People living...
The fight against discrimination of individuals living with HIV/Aids continues in Liberia
“I lost two close friends and relatives from HIV/AIDS due to lack of legal representation and they...
Freed after 740 days of detention while under provisional release granted
The court of Cibitoke is located in the North-West of Burundi, about 50 kilometers from the capital city Bujumbura....
Fight of IBJ’s team against quacks claiming cure for HIV/AIDS in India.
Under Indian law, it is...
A Russian JusticeMakers Fellow help free a wrongfully accused
“I remained at liberty and I am thankful to the court for its fair decision. Besides, I want...
Massive Awareness Program organized in Liberia on the legal rights of people living with HIV/Aids
« Helping those affected by HIV/Aids gain respect, rights and values in their society is a wonderful thing »....
Fact-finding missions to courts, prisons, and police stations examine how accused living with HIV/AIDS are treated in Nigeria’s justice system
For the project of JusticeMakers Fellow Thaddeus Nwabueze, fact-finding missions are crucial. Thaddeus, located in Nigeria, kicked off his...
Serving nearly double time: Teenager freed after IBJ simply follows-up with neglected case
One IBJ client was barely 15 years old when he was arrested on 6 July 2007. He was accused...
IBJ Mourns Loss of Provincial Investigator, Mr. Houn Bunnith
It is with heavy hearts that the IBJ family shares the news of the untimely death of a staff...
Inspiring Defender Excellence
During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s, China’s legal system was completely dismantled. There were no law...
Imprisonment as a family affair: One family’s acquittal after years in prison
During one of his regular prison visits to the prison of Bururi, IBJ lawyer Janvier Ncamatwi identified five family...
Wrong place, wrong time: One Auto-Rickshaw driver accused of abetting abduction released home to his wife and children after IBJ’s help
Prithu* is a 50-year-old street hawker who earns his living by selling eggs in a quiet neighborhood of north...
Meet Baru, pinned as a terrorist in a new city
Baru*, a resident of a small village in West Bengal, travelled to Delhi in 2005 with the hope of...
Bankrupt and accused of breach of trust, Ary found help in IBJ
By Marcena Winterscheidt In December of 2007, Ary* borrowed $5,000 from a local middleman to invest in property. The...
Justice Even for the Guilty
IBJ promotes bridges to justice. But who is justice for? And what does justice mean? Is it for the...
After more than a year since his acquittal, IBJ client released from prison seeks his family
By Charlène Buisson After more than four and a half years spent in prison as an innocent man,...