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Sunday, September 26, 2021
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Africa: a Regional Campaign to Decriminalise Petty Offences
In March 2015, a street vendor named Mayeso Gwanda was arrested on his way to...
Read morePrioritise non-custodial sentencing
Speakers at a roundtable discussion on sentencing in the country’s Criminal Justice System have called...
Read moreScrap Vagrancy Laws – Advocates Appeal
With the increasing number of inmates in Ghana’s prisons, crime prevention organization Crime Check Foundation...
Read moreCrime Check Foundation & OSIWA partner on Decriminalizing Vagrancy Laws and Advocacy (DVLA) project
The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has extended funding support to Crime Check...
Read moreDecriminalising and declassifying petty offences in Tunisian legislation
Recently, the Organization Against Torture in Tunisia organised an experts seminar, as part of this...
Read moreStatement in response to the activity report of the Special Rapporteur on Prisons, Conditions of Detention and Policing in Africa (Item 7)
68th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights 14 April –...
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 morePolicy brief: “Les échecs de la réforme de la loi 52 relative à la consommation et au trafic de stupéfiants”
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...
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