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Children caught using cannabis will no longer be criminally prosecuted
GroundUP reports: The Constitutional Court has ratified a High Court order declaring sections of the...
Read moreEconomic right activity in check in Malawi
Due to economic challenges the country is sailing through, some people have resorted to doing...
Read moreCity of Cape Town to return belongings to homeless after agreement in court
City of Cape Town has been ordered by the Western Cape High Court in South...
Read more‘Decriminalising petty offences’ JoyNews Special
‘Decriminalizing Petty Offences’ special on JoyNews Online. Mina Mensah, Director, CHRI and Samuel Lardy Anyenini, Director of...
Read moreCourt case filed against Sierra Leone to overturn discriminatory loitering laws
AdvocAid has filed a case at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community...
Read moreWhy the courts alone can’t solve homelessness
An op-ed from APCOF describes how, despite a court order, the City of Cape Town...
Read more‘Petty Offences, Major consequences’ : TelQuel special feature
Co-founder of Relais, Youssef Madad is interviewed in TelQuel Feature on ‘Petty Offences, Major Consequences’....
Read moreCity of Cape Town’s ‘broken windows’ policy demands more than a criminal justice response
In December 2021, campaign partner, APCOF crafted an OP-Ed in South Africa’s Daily Maverick entitled ‘City of...
Read more‘Equal before the Law?’ – Petty offences on BBC podcast
"The vendor who changed Malawi: Mayeso Gwanda took the state to court after his arrest...
Read moreMALAWI: Law Society rejects Legal Aid Proposal
In a proposal addressed to the Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament dated April 7 2021,...
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