Decrim Campaign, Author at Campaign to Decriminalize Poverty & Status

Sex workers used to illustrate the story. {PHOTO CREDIT: Daily Post Nigeria] A Nigerian court has...

Street Vendors and Public Space: An interactive e-book

By: WIEGO Date: February 2020 Through photography and text, this e-book offers an in-depth look at the important role street vendors...

NEWS: ZAMBIA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS PRISONERS’ RIGHTS TO FOOD AND IMPROVED PRISON CONDITIONS

SALC : ANNEKE MEERKOTTER Lusaka, 16 December 2019 – The Supreme Court of Zambia on 9 December 2019 handed down an...

Litigating to Protect the Rights of Poor and Marginalized Groups in Urban Spaces

Download PDF For centuries, and across the world, penal laws have been used to regulate urban spaces, with a cruel...

Protecting Malawi’s sex workers from police: ‘They say we’re sinners’

January 14, 2020

Although there is no law against prostitution in Malawi, sex workers routinely face abuse and wrongful arrest by police who...

UGANDA: Scheduling Conference For ‘Rogue and Vagabond’ Petition Adjourned To 25th September 2019

October 1, 2019

Today the petition challenging the constitutionality of Section 168 (1) (c) and (d), of Uganda's Penal Code Act, which creates...

NIGERIA: ‘Decriminalization of Petty Offences will Curb Prison Congestion’

July 16, 2019

By Hameed Oyegbade, Oshogbo The Deputy Director, Prison Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), Mrs Ogechi Ogu has observed that decriminalization...

KENYA:Drunk and disorderly: Poor Man’s Offence a Cash Cow for Police

October 1, 2019

By ERIC WAINAINA Weeks ago as Mr Kamau Mburu and other people were walking home shortly past 11 pm, they...

KENYA: Petty Offences are Biased against the Poor

October 1, 2019