by Joanna Howarth | May 4, 2022 | Press Releases
4 May 2022 Download press release AdvocAid has filed a case at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria, against the Government of Sierra Leone, seeking to overturn the country’s discriminatory loitering laws....
by Executive Director | Nov 26, 2020 | Press Releases, Publications
We are excited to announce the launch of our new five year strategy with passion, ambition, feminism, and human rights at its heart. Our strategy was created through a consultative and collaborative process that engaged women with lived experience, staff, volunteers,...
by Executive Director | Oct 29, 2020 | Blogs, Death penalty, Press Releases
While globally people commemorated the World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October, two women accused of murder were sentenced to death in Magburaka and Kabala, Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone retains a mandatory death penalty for murder and as an applicable...
by Executive Director | Aug 10, 2020 | COVID-19, Press Releases, Reports
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...
by Executive Director | Jul 30, 2020 | Blogs
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...