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Scrap Vagrancy Laws – Advocates Appeal
With the increasing number of inmates in Ghana’s prisons, crime prevention organization Crime Check Foundation...
Read moreEleven people who are homeless go to court to challenge Cape Town’s discriminatory by-laws
Last week eleven people experiencing homlessness launched applications in both the Western Cape High Court...
Read morePetty Offences Newsletter: November 2020 to February 2021 Activities
The quarterly digest of petty offences campaign activities for November 2020 to February 2021 is...
Read moreImprisoned under the Cover of COVID
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism 25 November 2020 Edward was lying on his bed when...
Read moreDocumentary on Zambia prisons
The Legal Resources Foundation, Southern Africa Litigation Centre, Prisoners Reintergration and Empowerment Organisation and Decisive...
Read moreAfrican Court Challenges States to rethink the Basis of their Criminal Laws
Africa.com 22 January 2021 By Anneke Meerkotter On 4 December 2020, the African Court on...
Read moreCOVID-19 Rules Haunt the Poor
The Nation By James Chavula 27 January 2021 In 2017, a vendor moved the Constitutional...
Read moreSouth African vagrancy laws hark back to colonial times and violate human rights
Daily Maverick Abdirahman Maalim Gossar 13 December 2020 In a watershed judgment, the African Court...
Read moreAfrican Court’s Landmark Opinion Could Reduce Criminalization of Poverty, Prison Overcrowding
All Africa Open Society Foundations (New York)'s Press Release 4 December 2020 Today, a continental...
Read moreRepeal Vagrancy Laws as they are Discriminatory: African Court Declares!
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, in its 59th Ordinary Session, has today...
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