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. […]
Mabel provides training to both professionals and detainees
Posted by Cristina Serrano at Dec
Para la versión en Español, haga click aquí. Mabel Jenny Antezana Arispe is one of the winners of the 2011 JusticeMakers competition organized by International Bridges to Justice. She graduated in Law and Politics and post-graduated in Criminology, has been a member of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights for over ten years, taught Roman Law at […]
Lawyers and doctors work together for the rights of the detainees
Posted by Cristina Serrano at Dec
Para la versión en Español, haga click aquí. María de la Paz Martínez Irigoitia is one of the winners of the 2011 JusticeMakers competition organized by International Bridges to Justice. She has been a practicing lawyer in Paraguay since 1997, is currently the Political law I and II Professor at Universidad Catolica and also writing her doctoral […]
Adriana Patricia Castaño defends young victims of arbitrary detention
Posted by Cristina Serrano at Dec
Para la versión en Español, haga click aquí. Adriana Patricia Castaño is one of the winners of the 2011 JusticeMakers competition organized by International Bridges to Justice. She has worked as a defender for years, particularly in the field of the rights of youth in the city of Medellin (Colombia). She has been an activist for the […]
