During a free hour in a hectic weekend of workshops Buhle Dube, JusticeMakers grant-winner and law professor at the University of Swaziland, leaned forward and described how he decided to become a lawyer.”Well I think I was always going to be a pilot. Until when I finished high school and I said, ‘I’m going to [...]

I have been working in Kisumu, Kenya with CLEAR(Christian Legal Education Aid and Research)-Kisumu, a JusticeMaker project, for three weeks now. I have been waiting patiently for excellent internet so that I can upload a real slideshow, but the fast internet has yet to come. So here is a smaller sampling of the projects the [...]

During workshops Buhle Dube and his JusticeMakers team held last weekend complaints from community police uncovered incidents of mob justice and torture. The team was in southern Swaziland at the villages of Matsanjeni in Lavumisa and Ngelane in Mazombizwe where incidents of prisoner abuse had been reported in the Times of Swaziland on 10 [...]

This past Friday 2008 JusticeMakers Fellow Buhle Dube held an event at local restaurant Quatermain’s with Swazi and international lawyers. Buhle hoped to spread word of the successes and challenges he and his volunteer team have encountered fighting torture and prisoner abuse. Above: Background from left, JusticeMakers intern Phakama Shili, Ndumiso Mthethwa and Clement Dlamini [...]

Today we have a visit to the remand home, where Legal Rights Forum wants to establish a Juvenile Rehabilitation (Career Training) Center.  In the cab we go, and we drive about 20 minutes outside of Karachi’s center to the home. When we get to the home, Safi - an LRF advocate - stops at the fruit [...]