by sabrinamahtani | Dec 10, 2011 | Advocacy, Blogs, Legal Aid, News
AdvocAid was honoured to be invited to speak at the National Conference on Advancing Legal Aid for Women’s Rights organised by the Human Rights Commission on 8 to 9 December 2010 as part of their events listed to mark International Human Rights Day on 10...
by sabrinamahtani | Dec 9, 2011 | Advocacy, Blogs, News, Publications
AdvocAid, with the support of GIZ, has developed a Handbook on the United Nations Standards for the Treatment of Female Prisoners. The handbook can be found in the “resources” section of our website or by clicking here. This handbook aims to provide a...
by sabrinamahtani | Dec 1, 2011 | Advocacy, Blogs, Education, Events, News
To mark World AIDS Day 2011, we are sharing a case study about how we assisted a female detainee who was affected with HIV. AdvocAid aims to provide medical and welfare assistance to girls, women and their children in detention. We also conduct legal and reproductive...
by sabrinamahtani | Nov 24, 2011 | Blogs, Education, Events, News, Press Releases
As part of our reintegration programme, we are offering skills based training to female ex prisoners. Our first course focused on jewellery design. The women were offered a six week course to introduce them to the basics of jewellery design. The course was lead by...
by sabrinamahtani | Nov 15, 2011 | Blogs, Legal Aid, News, Radio Interview, Welfare
AdvocAid’s Executive Director, Legal Officer and Volunteer Lawyer spent several days in Bo and Kenema to monitor and support the work of our paralegal in the Easter region. The visit included prison monitoring, distributing key welfare items to women and their...
