PRESS RELEASE: With people in detention vulnerable to uncontrollable spreads of COVID-19, ground-breaking research investigates the gruelling reality of female imprisonment in Sierra Leone.

First comprehensive study of women in Sierra Leone’s prisons finds 62% of those interviewed were pre-trial detainees Pretrial detention contributes to overcrowding, which is alarming with the current COVID-19 pandemic 34% interviewees had been arrested and...

Press Release: Vance launch

PRESS RELEASE: AdvocAid launches groundbreaking research on the causes and consequences of women’s imprisonment in Sierra Leone, in partnership with Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice  On 10 August 2020, AdvocAid and Cyrus R. Vance Centre for...