In the Burundian law it is stated: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment”. Unfortunately, complying with this is not reality in the prisons in the different...
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...
In addition to street law campaigns, IBJ Burundi, in partnership with APRODH, has begun running legal rights campaigns in Burundian prisons. In Bubanza prison, on 29 March 2010, IBJ Intern Celesta Duivenvoorde explaining women...
On the 22nd of April, IBJ Burundi held, in partnership with APRODH, a roundtable on the issue of the presumption of innocence. This roundtable gathered thirty stakeholders of the criminal justice system of Ngozi,...
Like every month, IBJ Burundi, in cooperation with our precious partner APRODH conducted on the 30th of March an awareness raising campaign to educate people about their legal rights. This month, the IBJ staff...
From 23 to 25 February, IBJ staff went to Rumonge, a city in the south of the country, to conduct two activities. For the first time indeed, both a street law campaign and a...
On 9th December 2009, IBJ co-organised a fifth roundtable with APRODH in the province of Cibitoke. The aim was to gather members of the Burundi judicial system- whether lawyers, prison officials, police officers, prosecutors...
On 26th and 27th January, IBJ Burundi organised a street law campaign in Kabezi, a commune located in the province of Bujumbura rural, 20 kilometres southwards of the capital. This campaign was already well-rehearsed,...
Each 10th December, the international community celebrates the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. International Bridges to Justice Burundi took part to this very special day, organizing a legal rights awareness campaign...
During the last week of July, IBJ organized a roundtable in the town of Bubanza, roughly 45 minutes drive from Bujumbura. The choice of Bubanza as the venue for this activity was not neutral...
