by Executive Director | Dec 10, 2020 | Advocacy, Blogs, Death penalty
AdvocAid board member and former Executive Director Simitie Lavaly spoke recently at the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. During her time at AdvocAid, Simitie represented eight women and men on death row, advocated for better conditions for...
by Executive Director | Dec 2, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19
Fatmata*1 is a chairlady of commercial sex workers in one of Sierra Leone’s brothels. According to Fatmata*, COVID-19 regulations, especially imposed curfews, made her and other CSWs’ lives even more vulnerable and precarious. To enforce curfews, Sierra Leone Police...
by Executive Director | Dec 2, 2020 | Blogs, COVID-19
“I was so scared when I was arrested, I couldn’t say anything to the police.” During Sierra Leone’s periodic lockdowns, which started on 5th April, a number of girls and women were arrested for going out to get necessities, like food and water, for their families....
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...
