Mabel provides training to both professionals and detainees
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 the Universidad Mayor de San Simon and has been a practicing lawyer in Bolivia since 1997. According to a study [...]
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Lawyers and doctors work together for the rights of the detainees
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 thesis on the “Current Problems of Penal Law” for the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. María de la Paz is [...]
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Adriana Patricia Castaño defends young victims of arbitrary detention
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 Red Juvenil of Medellin since 1996, and previously a participant in youth groups in the north-west of Medellin, in community activities, [...]
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Gabriela Vázquez promotes the right to Health in Argentinian prisons
2011 JusticeMaker Gabriela Vázquez works to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Argentinian prisons. She has organized workshops for security staff, health promoters and inmates and distributed information flyers and condoms.
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Justice through Correspondence: Juvenile Justice in Chile
2011 JusticeMaker Alejandro Vianda has set up an innovative communication system between juvenile inmates and their lawyers.
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Verónica Quiroga fights for women’s rights in Bolivian prisons
2011 JusticeMaker Verónica Marisol Quiroga Pando fights discrimination that female detainees face in Bolivian prisons. She also provides legal representation to women in pre-trial detention. Read More...
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Justine Saidi successfully represents juveniles in the DRC
2011 JusticeMaker Justine Saidi's legal representation of juveniles has resulted in numerous successful outcomes. Thanks to Justine's diligence and perseverance 15 year old M.'s case has been acquitted by the Court of Appeal.
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JusticeMaker Conducts Trainings, Helps Secure the Release of Pre-Trial Detainees
IBJ's 2010 Asia JusticeMaker Bijaya Chanda has managed to give basic legal training to some 1919 pre-trial detainees (known in India as under-trial prisoners, or UTPs) since the beginning of January 2011.
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Interview with JusticeMaker Gautier Zomissi
In May 2011, IBJ Volunteer Krishna Gagné travelled to Yaoundé in Cameroon to meet up with 2011 JusticeMaker Gautier Zomissi and his partner Ghislain Tchakount to discuss the progress of their project.
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A Profile of JusticeMaker Elchin Abullayev
Elchin Abullayev is a Justice Makers fellow based in the former soviet republic of Azerbaijan. A small country, located on the Caspian sea, north of Iran and south of Russian, Azerbaijan has slowly gained international recognition. Most recently, a catchy pop tune on Euro Vision catapulted Azerbaijan into the spotlight-a spotlight reserved for highlighting political protest, corruption, and sideline news up until this point. A newly democratic state, Azerbaijan continuously struggled to establish a people, [...]
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