by sabrinamahtani | Nov 7, 2014 | Blogs, News
Message from Sabrina Mahtani, Outgoing Executive Director I’m pleased to announce that in June 2014, Simitie Lavaly took over as Executive Director of AdvocAid. I have continued to work with Simitie and our Senior Management over these past few months to support this...
by sabrinamahtani | Oct 19, 2014 | Blogs, Legal Aid, Videos
A film crew from IRIN followed the work of two of AdvocAid’s paralegals, Marvel and Victoria, in Freetown and Makeni. This short film showcases the challenges they face and the importance of their free legal aid services with a growing female prison population...
by sabrinamahtani | Oct 19, 2014 | Advocacy, Blogs, Legal Aid, News
We are currently writing a series of Law in a Time of Ebola blogs, sharing our work during the tragic Ebola epidemic. Our second blog was published in the New Internationalist this week. When the Ebola epidemic escalated in Sierra Leone around June 2014 we...
by sabrinamahtani | Aug 25, 2014 | Blogs, Education, Legal Aid, News
By Chris Randall, law student at Berkley School of Law, who volunteered with AdvocAid in 2014 In a small, sunlit courtyard in Koidu Prison, prisoners Aminatta, Hawa, and Kadi* practice pronouncing and writing letters of the English language. These twice-weekly English...
by sabrinamahtani | Dec 23, 2013 | Advocacy, Blogs, Legal Aid, News, Press Releases
Fatmata is a young secondary school girl, around 18 years old, who is currently being held in police custody at Magburaka Police Station, Northern Sierra Leone. She has been held since 3 December 2013 without charge, way over the 10 day constitutional time limit....
