by Executive Director | Feb 6, 2012 | Blogs
PRESS RELEASE: 22 “LOITERING” PRISONERS RELEASED BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE FOLLOWING ADVOCAID INTERVENTION 22 people (7 men, 12 women, 4 juveniles) convicted of loitering and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment at Pademba Road and Freetown Female Prisons, were dramatically...
by sabrinamahtani | Jan 29, 2012 | Blogs, Capacity Building, News
AdvocAid is running a legal externship programme with the support of Open Society Justice Initiative. The externs are based with 3 legal aid organisations (Defence for Children, LAWYERS and AdvocAid) and gain practical experience working in legal aid and human rights...
by sabrinamahtani | Jan 29, 2012 | Blogs, Events, News
AdvocAid was part of a panel at the International Human Rights Funders Group Conference this week in San Francisco. The panel was entitled “Flourish or Wilt? Taking Stock of Women’s Human Rights in an Era of Revolutionary Political Change” and we presented...
by sabrinamahtani | Jan 18, 2012 | Blogs, Events, Legal Aid
AdvocAid’s Executive Director and Legal Officer paid a visit to Makeni to monitor and support the work of our Makeni paralegal, Victoria Koroma, who is based with Access to Justice Makeni. We paid visits to the Courts and met with police, State Counsel and the...
by sabrinamahtani | Jan 18, 2012 | Blogs, Events, News
Today we are celebrating 10 years of peace in Sierra Leone and also remembering all those who suffered during the 11 year long civil war and those who still feel the effects today. Sierra Leone has come a long way since AdvocAid started in 2006 but there are still...
