JusticeMakers Outreach Programme Educates Locals on HIV/AIDS
By Garima Tiwari Protecting and promoting the health rights as well as legal human rights of the high-risk and vulnerable community is a prerequisite for dealing with the problem of HIV/AIDS and helping to...
Hundreds attend JusticeMakers outreach programme on HIV/AIDS in Mandideep, India
More than 300 men, women, and young adults attended a JusticeMakers programme on HIV/AIDS in the industrial Mandideep area. Protecting and promoting the health rights as well as legal human rights of the community...
IBJ India conducted latest Rights Awareness Campaign for Convicted Prisoners at Central Jail No.2 Tihar (New Delhi)
On 8th March 2013, International Bridges to Justice (India) endeavored to inform convicted inmates in Tihar Jail (New Delhi) about their rights, focusing on the right to appeal but also the entitlement to parole,...
Law Enforcers in Liberia Unite to Discuss Rights of the Accused Living with HIV/AIDS
We send you warm greetings from Nimba County, rural Liberia. Greetings! March 9 marks a major milestone for the defence and rights of the affected persons in our region — a JusticeMakers organized workshop...
IBJ India Promoting Access to Justice in a National Criminology Conference
Contributed By: Auriane Mouret On 16th February 2013, International Bridges to Justice was invited to the 36th All India Criminology Conference at the National Law University of New Delhi. The specific session, wherein IBJ...
Acquitted for a Second Time on Appeal
When IBJ first met Makara in 2009, IBJ’s provincial lawyer in Pursat successfully defended him against a murder charge. The prosecution appealed and as is usual practice, he remained in detention until an appeal...
A Legacy of Support for the Rule of Law in China
Published by Chinese Business Review January-March 2013 US-China Legal Cooperation Fund A Legacy of Support for the Rule of Law in China by Anne Phelan In the spring of 1999, when the US-China Legal Cooperation...
Human Rights Day – Cambodian Art & Culture in Pursat Prison
To celebrate the United Nations’ International Human Rights Day, International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) sought to bring Cambodian arts and culture to Pursat prison. On 10 December 2012, Pursat prison saw its courtyard transformed...
2010 JusticeMakers Fellow Yasmeen elected to UN committee on child's rights
International Bridges to Justice is delighted to congratulate JusticeMakers Fellow Yasmeen Muhammad Shariff, as she becomes the first Malaysian to be elected to the United Nations’ Committee of the Rights of the Child (CRC)...