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Thursday, October 21, 2021
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Documentary 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...
Read moreJohannesburg cannot Police its Future
The Mail & Guardian On 29 June this year, amid the generalized panic and concern...
Read moreKenya’s Gulag: The Dehumanisation and Exploitation of Inmates in State Prisons
The Elephant By Patrick Gathara Kenyan prisons today carry the DNA of their forebears –...
Read morePetty Offences Newsletter: Digest of Campaign activities in September 2020
In September 2020, the Regional Campaign to Decriminalise Petty Offences hosted a virtual conference entitled Policing...
Read morePetty Offences Newsletter: Increased Criminalisation in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
Regional Campaign partners remain deeply concerned about the criminalisation of poverty across our continent. It...
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