Author: Jean
Published:
24
Feb
2012
This week’s Budget brought good news for the upgrading and construction of court buildings, a Sake24 report notes.
News
South Africa
Author: Jean
Published:
24
Feb
2012
"Prisoners subject to physical and moral violence of an inhuman and degrading nature" finds Togo's national human rights commission.
Togo
News
Author: Jean
Published:
23
Feb
2012
THE Lukanga Water and Sewerage Company yesterday disconnected water supply to all prisons in Central province to recover more than K200million (US$38000) owed in water bills, placing prisoners lives in jeopardy.
News
Zambia
Prisons
Author: Jean
Published:
21
Feb
2012
Ralph Kasambara, former Attorney-General and lawyer who has brought many of the most recent important human rights or rule of law cases in Malawi to court, has been detained in prison after defending himself from petrol bombers.
ACJR News
News
Malawi
Author: Jean
Published:
08
Feb
2012
Overworked investigating judges and a lack of lawyers leads to inordinate delays in Bafang, Cameroon.
Cameroon
ACJR News
News
Author: Jean
Published:
06
Feb
2012
Forty foreign NGO workers to be charged and 19 banned from leaving the country.
ACJR News
Author: Jean
Published:
01
Jan
2012
The Minister of Youth and Civic Education in Republic of the Congo, Anatole Collinet Makosso, spent New Year's day with young offenders in Brazzaville prison and delivered civic education materials to the prison.
Republic of the Congo
ACJR News
News
Author: Berber
Published:
15
Dec
2011
On 13 December, following International Human Rights Day, the Article 5 Initiative (A5I) was launched at the Breakwater Lodge in Cape Town. The Article 5 Initiative aims to support African institutions to improve domestic compliance with international law obligations, norms and procedures under the United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT) and the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR).
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South African budget aims to ease pressure on courts
