by Joanna Howarth | Apr 20, 2023 | Legal Aid, Press Releases
Press Release: 20 April 2023 AdvocAid, L.A.W.Y.E.R.S., I.LR.A.J., A Girl At A Time, Amnesty International, and Girlz Empowered are concerned about the recent arrest of Zainab Sheriff who was arrested and detained for a video she posted online expressing her...
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 | Jan 12, 2022 | Press Releases
AdvocAid and Purposeful are dismayed that only five women out of 160 incarcerated people were pardoned during the New Year’s Day Presidential pardons. Further, that no women imprisoned in Correctional Centers in the provinces were pardoned or two girls incarcerated at...
by Executive Director | Jul 23, 2021 | Death penalty, Press Releases
23 July 2021 AdvocAid congratulates the Government and Parliament of Sierra Leone on abolishing the death penalty. Since its founding 15 years ago, AdvocAid has campaigned to end this cruel practice. Since 2006, AdvocAid has actively campaigned for the abolition...
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...
