© 2021. Decriminalizing Petty Offences in Africa.
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
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Eleven 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...
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The quarterly digest of petty offences campaign activities for November 2020 to February 2021 is...
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Tunisia’s Law 52 on drug use and trafficking was reformed in 2017 to allow judges...
Read moreImprisoned under the Cover of COVID
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism 25 November 2020 Edward was lying on his bed when...
Read moreRwanda Should Stop Locking Up the Poor
Reliefweb 21 December 2020 African Court Decision Condemns Practice The African Court on Human and...
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 moreFindings on Petty Offences Violations in Nigeria
Lawyers Alert in partnership with Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) released petty offences...
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