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Fact sheet 29: Sub-national governance and the plight of women working in public spaces in South Africa | by Janelle Mangwanda

The right to work in public spaces has recently become a highly contested issue; and the reality in most African countries is that those working in public ...

Fact sheet 28: Sub-national governance and the plight of people working in public spaces | by Janelle Mangwanda and Kristen Petersen

The socio-economic and political landscape in many African countries is characterised with inequality, poverty and high unemployment rates, forcing populations ...

Fact sheet 27: Sub-national law enforcement and oversight in four African countries: Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia | by Janelle Mangwanda

Sub-national law enforcement (when properly organised) supplements the work of national police at a local level by strengthening community-police relations and ...

Fact sheet 26: Public Spaces & Informal Work: Principles and Approaches to Law & Policy-Making | by Kristen Petersen

Public space forms the setting for a number of activities, including the setting for community life and livelihoods of the urban poor, such as street vendors ...

This fact sheet deals with arrest without a warrant in Malawi. Currently in Malawi there remain laws on the statutes that have not been tested against ...

This fact sheet focuses on arrest without a warrant in Kenya. Currently in Kenya the situation has been complicated by the legislative powers granted to the ...

This factsheet deals with the power to arrest without a warrant in Mozambique. A 2013-decision by the Constitutional Council of Mozambique resulted in ...

This fact sheet deals with arrest without a warrant in Zambia. It highlights the legal framework governing arrest without a warrant, the shortcomings in the ...

This fact sheet addresses alternative ways in which offenders of minor crimes can be dealt with at a court level using a more restorative justice approach. It ...

This fact sheet addresses the role that prosecutors can play in dealing with offenders of minor crimes. It emphasizes the use of restorative justice approaches ...