Events

Webinar: Cross-country determinants of independence of prosecution [2 December 2024]

02 Dec, 2024 from 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM — Zoom,

Prosecution agencies across the world enjoy varying degrees of independence from the government of the day. In cases of corruption involving state actors and those dealing with the state, their autonomy is crucial to ensure impartiality and public trust.

Webinar: Sub-national governance and the plight of women working in public spaces [26 November 2024]

26 Nov, 2024 from 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM — Zoom,

Challenges and principles to improve policy and law-making

Webinar: “Not my Riot - SAPS, local government and crowd management" [1 August 2024]

01 Aug, 2024 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM — Zoom,

Reflecting on the proposed revised national policing standards for Municipal Police Services on crowd management during gatherings and demonstrations.

Awareness Raising and Training workshop: Dissemination of the Abidjan Rules, within the framework of the Special Mechanism of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa (CPTA) [28 June 2024]

28 Jun, 2024 from 09:00 AM to 01:30 PM — Rooms 1C&D at the School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa,

Awareness-raising and training workshop for the dissemination of the Rules establishing and operating the mechanism for alerting and reporting situations of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (The Abidjan Rules).

Webinar: Sub-national governance and the plight of people working in public spaces [14 November 2023]

14 Nov, 2023 from 02:30 PM to 04:00 PM — Online,

The aim of this webinar is to discuss the challenges they experience; and provide recommendations for improvement to local authorities.

Webinar on Sub-national Governance, Law Enforcement and Oversight in Five African Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia [30 August 2023]

30 Aug, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM — Zoom,

In April 2023 Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) launched a webinar series on sub-national governance and the criminalisation of poverty and status. ACJR, hereby cordially invites you to the third installment of the above series focusing on ‘Sub-national Governance, Law Enforcement and Oversight in Five African Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia’. The webinar will unpack issues relating to sub-national law enforcement, highlighting concerns regarding a general lack of oversight mechanisms for monitoring and accountability, and discussing the implications for practice and law reform at a sub-national level.

The webinar will unpack issues relating to sub-national law enforcement, highlighting concerns regarding a general lack of oversight mechanisms for monitoring and accountability, and discussing the implications for practice and law reform at a sub-national level.

The webinar will unpack the impact of laws and policies on people working in the informal economy, address rights-based protections afforded to them and highlight key considerations for law and policy-making that protect their needs and interests.

Please note that this webinar has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. A new date will be communicated in due course.

ACJR hereby cordially invites you to the first of a series of webinars on sub-national governance and the criminalisation of poverty and status.

What do magistrates think about prosecutors? ACJR’s work on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has included attempts at measuring perceptions of stakeholders, particularly those with direct experience of the prosecution.

Under the current National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) four core values were articulated, being professionalism, independence, accountability and credibility. What do any of these values look like in practice and how will we know when we see it?

ACJR, Ubuntu Justice Initiative, and the Zambian Law Development Commission (ZLDC) hereby cordially invite you to a webinar to discuss the findings emanating from the stakeholder engagement in Zambia and to deliberate on recommendations for handling similar future public health crises.

ACJR and LRF hereby cordially invites you to a webinar to discuss the findings emanating from the stakeholder engagement in Kenya and to deliberate on recommendations for handling similar future public health crisis.

The annual convening of the Global Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status, of which Africa Criminal Justice Reform is a member will be held from 27 – 29 September 2022 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The conference will take on the theme: ‘Decriminalising Status and Activism’.

ACJR and CHREAA hereby cordially invites you to a webinar to discuss the findings emanating from the stakeholder engagement in Malawi and to deliberate on recommendations for handling similar future public health crisis.

Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa & Zambia

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) must prosecute corruption at all levels of government. While much of the focus has been on the capture of national government and national state-owned enterprises (SOE's), there has also been widespread corruption in municipalities.

In a series of five Issue Papers, Lukas Muntingh and Jean Redpath take a few steps back and ask whether we are indeed problematising the correct issues and, if so, are we problematising the issue in a manner that will restore trust and thus legitimacy in the NPA. From this position we can also examine our current and future expectations of the NPA.

The Multilevel Government, Law and Development and Africa Criminal Justice Reform in collaboration with Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to a webinar on Local Government and Crime in light of the 2021 Local Government Elections.

Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) has produced a compendium of reports on the COVID-19 measures taken in five African countries, namely; Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia. Please join ACJR for a 90-minute webinar to release the main findings.

This webinar is based on a paper which seeks to understand why that might be the case and proposes a process and a logic for developing prosecution priorities which may change this result and improve the impact of prosecutions.

This webinar will explore the rationale, law and possibilities for delegation of the prosecution function to appropriate state entities.

Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) is hosting a virtual meeting on 4 August 2021 on a 'New research paper "The prosecution service and the provinces"' by Prof Lukas Muntingh

16 July 2021: The Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, University of the Western Cape, and the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, cordially invite you to the Julius Osega Memorial Lecture 2021:

This webinar reviews the imposition of a “hard” lockdown on 26 March 2020 by the South African government. It forms part of a series on the "unwanted anniversary" from the various units of the Dullah Omar Institute. This webinar focuses on the balancing of rights and the use of the criminal justice system in imposing restrictions in South Africa.

17 March 2021: This webinar will review the 2019/2020 Annual Report of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).

3 March 2021: This webinar will review South Africa's Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services' Annual Report 2019/2021.

24 February 2021: This webinar will consider the 2019/2020 Annual Reports of the South Africa Police Service (SAPS) and South Africa's Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), released later than usual in 2020 in South Africa.

24 February 2021: The South African Police Service (SAPS) budget exceeded R100 billion for the first time in 2020/2021, with increases to SAPS over time tending to beat inflation. The SAPS Annual Report for the previous year, 2019/2020, only became available in late 2020. This report sheds some light on where and how this money is usually spent prior to the State of Disaster conditions. What can the Annual Report tell us about the state of policing before the State of Disaster? The SAPS Annual Report 2019/20 can be found here. The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is supposed to ensure certain prescribed actions by SAPS members are carefully scrutinised and members are held to account. What does the IPID Annual Report for 2019/2020 tell us about the extent to which they are able to do so? The IPID Annual Report 2019/20 can be found here. This webinar will pick out highlights and lowlights from the 2019/2020 Annual Reports of SAPS and IPID with a particular focus on the failure to discipline and hold SAPS members accountable for their actions. Facilitator: Kristen Petersen Panellists: • Jean Redpath (ACJR) • Lukas Muntingh (ACJR) • Janelle Mangwanda (ACJR) After registration participants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining each webinar. ACJR wishes to acknowledge the Open Society Foundation-South Africa and the Sigrid Rausing Trust for making these webinars possible.