Training & Educational Materials
AdvocAid produces Training and Educational Materials to ensure legal standards and human rights are being upheld in police stations, prisons and courts across Sierra Leone.
Please download and use these materials at you own organisation; we kindly ask you to credit AdvocAid when used or reproduced, and to let us know how you’re using them to ensure we’re producing useful and timeless resources.
Summary: this is the second edition of AdvocAid’s criminal legal education materials, first published in 2007 in conjunction with Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Programme (now Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law). Since 2007, AdvocAid has been working with law students to conduct legal education programmes in prisons in Sierra Leone.
Summary: First produced in November 2011, with the support of GIZ, this resource aims to provide a clear, portable and easy to use guide to the Bangkok Rules, which outline standards for the treatment of female prisoners. It is designed to assist prison officials, prisoners and civil society in fostering enforcement of human rights standards for girls, women and their children in the criminal justice system.
Summary: Produced following the resounding success of our educational TV series, Police Case, the DVD and facilitators is available for organisations working with girls and women (primarily in Sierra Leone, as it focuses on local laws and is in Krio with English subtitles). Get in touch if you’d like a copy of the DVD, and find out more about Police Case.
Arrest Rights Posters
With support from the British High Commission and UN Women, AdvocAid has produced posters depicting key messages surrounding arrest rights and treatment of women and girls when they come into contact with the law.
Please feel free to download these posters, print them, share them, email them and use them to help promote women’s rights.
Click on each image to get the full poster.
Illustrations by: De Monk
Police Complaints Manual
Thanks to our partners at Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the Clifford Chance 2016 Access to Justice Award, AdvocAid has published a comprehensive Police Complaints Manual to help increase police accountability, improve public confidence in the police and help seek justice for victims of police misconduct.
Together, we are all working to ensure that legal aid providers and anyone seeking to file a complaint are aware of proper procedures and reporting mechanisms.
Please feel free to download the manual and share it to help promote women and girl’s human rights.
AdvocAid has produced posters depicting key messages of the Bangkok Rules for the treatment of female detainees. Please feel free to download these posters, print them, share them, email them and use them to help promote women’s rights.
Click on each image to get the full poster as a PDF.
AdvocAid’s Nar Yu Right (left) is a song to educate women about their rights, recorded in 2013 for Human Rights Day in Freetown Correctional Centre. Led by female Sierra Leonean hip hop artist, Star Zee, Nar Yu Right focuses on explaining to women about their legal rights, such as not to sign anything that they do not understand when taken into police custody or that they are innocent until proven guilty.