From Guerrilla Fighter to Human Rights Activist
Each year in the Philippines, many human rights activists receive death threats, and some get killed. To continue working...
Filipino Farmers Face Criminal Charges for Harvesting Coconuts
In the Bondoc peninsula, where the municipalities of San Andres and San Narciso meet, it is easy to lose oneself...
The Landless and the Law
Ten years ago, the tenants of Hacienda Villa Reyes in Quezon Province, Philippines lived a poor and destitute life....
Meet JusticeMaker Nana Chapidze
In between working for five different Georgian legal justice NGOs, spearheading international grant projects and translating various legal documents,...
Between David and Goliath, Stands a JusticeMaker
Above: Rosselynn Jae Garcia de la Cruz (Jae), 2010 JusticeMaker fellow and agrarian reform lawyer It was about...
Trainings and Awareness-Raising Activities Echo Anti-Torture Day in Burundi
As last Saturday Burundi was, like the rest of the world, paying a tribute to the victims of torture...
Kigali DRC Finds a Place to Call Its Own
On Thursday, June 24th, the IBJ-Rwanda Defense Resource Center (DRC) settled into its new headquarters in Remera – a bustling...
Legal Defense Training and Community Roundtable Discussion to Improve Access to Justice in Rwanda
IBJ is pleased to announce that a legal defense training and judicial community roundtable discussion will be conducted in...
High Time for Changing the Adult Time for Adult Crime Mentality
“When you teach someone to swim, you don’t just throw them in the deep end and hope they do...
Addicted to Justice: JusticeMaker’s Fellow Evans Muswahili Continues Working for Reform in Kenya
For some, pursuing justice seems to be an addiction. Following the successes of his JusticeMaker project for IBJ over...