Rasul Educates Azeri Families about their Rights
Posted by rasul at Apr
Rasul Jafarov, JusticeMaker 2010 from Azerbaijan, has gone to new lengths in his quest to ensure that Azeri prisoners and their families are informed about and can execute their rights to early release. Most recently, Rasul experimented with the novel idea of a call-in phone hotline, which was intended to answer questions for prisoners’ […]
JUSTICEMAKERS FROM FOUR COUNTRIES SHARE BEST PRACTICES VIA SKYPE
Posted by thalusa at Nov
On 19 November 2010, IBJ Singapore and IBJ Geneva facilitated a multi-time zone brainstorming session to encourage the JusticeMakers to recognize the powerful resource their peers can be in the success of their projects. Using Skype, moderators Thomas Halusa (Singapore) and Wouter Krujis (Geneva) managed the participation of JusticeMakers across seven time zones and four […]
Azeri JusticeMaker Continues to Press for Prisoners Rights
Posted by rasul at Nov
Rasul Jafarov, JusticeMaker 2010 from Azerbaijan, continues work on his innovative project to inform prisoners and their families about their rights to early release. The message, which is being spread through a telephone hotline, provides citizens whose relatives are in jail with information about the early release mechanism. Hoping to increase citizen’s awareness of his […]
A Missed Opportunity for Effective Legal Advice
Posted by rasul at Sep
Rasul Jafarov, International Bridges to Justice’s 2010 JusticeMaker Fellow in Azerbaijan, has recently launched a project to develop comprehensive legal education programs in Azeri prisons. In support of this project, Rasul approached the Ministry of Justice Penitentiary Services with a request to begin his “Public Initiatives on Releasing Prisoners Early” program. In response, the Ministry […]
