Monthly Archives: October 2012
JusticeMakers Fellows: Patrick Dunkwu
Posted by International Bridges to Justice at Oct
Although Nigeria’s constitution says that an arrested criminal defendant is entitled to inform his lawyers and family about his arrest, this is rarely the case. Police often make arrests and secretly charge suspects without allowing them access to their lawyers or notifying their families. Additionally, many of these suspects cannot afford a lawyer. As a […]
Torture in the name of treatment
Posted by International Bridges to Justice at Oct
Hundreds of thousands of people identified as drug users in China and across Southeast Asia are held without due process in centers where they may be subjected to torture, and physical and sexual violence in the name of “treatment”, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released in July. International donors and United Nations […]
JusticeMakers Fellows: Shananur Islam
Posted by International Bridges to Justice at Oct
Mrs. Kolpone, a 36 year-old woman and mother of a ten year-old girl, was arrested in July 2009 by the Paltan police station in Bangladesh, alleging that she had stolen two gold bangles along with some money. Although the police were not able to recover any of the stolen goods, she was put into custody. […]
JusticeMakers 2012 Applications Map
Posted by International Bridges to Justice at Oct
Here you have it: the map with all the applications submitted to date for the 2012 JusticeMakers HIV/AIDS Global Competition 2012!. We have received almost 20 applications coming from Nigeria, Pakistan, Ukraine, Cameroon, Liberia and Benin among other countries. However, we still have a lot of work to do. We haven’t received any application from […]
