Amanda Shivamba, Author at Campaign to Decriminalize Poverty & Status

Progressive International Women’s imprisonment is closely related to poverty: women are in debt because they are poor and cannot afford...

Lawyers Alert Releases Data on Human Rights Abuse Associated with Petty Offences in Nigeria

The Nigerian Voice Data on human rights abuse associated with petty offences in Nigeria covering the period October 2019 and...

Thousands of South Africans who Broke Lockdown Rules could have Criminal Records

Business Tech The Department of Justice and Correctional Services is currently working on new legislation which will stop admission of...

Three Months in Jail for Breaking Lockdown Rules, Judge Orders Release of Waste Pickers

The Citizen Forced to choose between hunger and breaching the lockdown regulations, two waste pickers chose the latter – and...

Prisons, Overcrowding and Preventing Covid-19 Transmission

August 8, 2020

Over 163,000 people are in correctional facilities in South Africa. Outbreaks of Covid-19 in these prisons can have catastrophic consequences...

Amnesty International: Sub-Saharan States must Protect Detainees against COVID-19

August 26, 2020

Amnesty International In many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, prisons are overcrowded. Prisoners often live in squalid conditions and the healthcare...

Malawi to Decongest Prisons With Covid-19 Cases Rising Fast Among Inmates

August 8, 2020

AllAfrica Minister of homeland security, Richard Chimwendo Banda , acknowledged that the situation in the the country's prisons over Coronavirus...

Digest on Excessive Use of Force in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

August 5, 2020

The Regional Campaign to Decriminalise Petty Offences has long argued for a change in police arrest practices and increased accountability...

Overhaul and Align Laws on use of Force

August 4, 2020