Annexure One: COVID-19 restrictions and the impact on criminal justice and human rights | Kenya
Report by J Mangwanda & K Petersen (2022)
Annexure Two: COVID-19 restrictions and the impact on criminal justice and human rights | Malawi
Report by K Petersen and J Mangwanda (2022)
Annexure Three: COVID-19 restrictions and the impact on criminal justice and human rights | Mozambique
Report by T Lorizzo and V Petrovic (2022)
Annexure Four: COVID-19 restrictions and the impact on criminal justice and human rights | South Africa
Report by K Petersen, J Mangwanda, L Muntingh and J Redpath (2022)
Annexure Five: COVID-19 restrictions and the impact on criminal justice and human rights | Zambia
Report by J Mangwanda and K Petersen (2022)
By L Muntingh, J Mangwanda, K Petersen, T Lorizzo and V Petrovic
Presentation: The socio-economic consequences of COVID-19 measures | By Janelle Mangwanda
COVID-19 restrictions and the impact on criminal justice and human rights (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa & Zambia)
Presentation: Overview and key findings | By Lukas Muntingh
Overview and key findings: COVID-19 restrictions and the impact on criminal justice and human rights (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa & Zambia)
Presentation: The impact of COVID-19 on the criminal justice system | By Kristen Petersen
COVID-19 restrictions and the impact on criminal justice & human rights (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa & Zambia)
Submission on Proposed Regulations in terms of the National Health Act
This submission is in relation to draft regulations published in Gazette 46048 of 15 March 2022
Statement under Agenda Item 3: Human Rights Situation in Africa | 71st Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
ACJR statement to the African Commission under the item Human Rights Situation in Africa addresses the concerns around African States' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that law enforcement officials implicated in rights violations against citizens in the context of COVID-19 have not been held accountable for their actions.
In a series of five Issue Papers, Lukas Muntingh and Jean Redpath take a few steps back and ask whether we are indeed problematising the correct issues and, if so, are we problematising the issue in a manner that will restore trust and thus legitimacy in the NPA. From this position we can also examine our current and future expectations of the NPA.
Presentation: Accountability and Transparency of the NPA | by Jean Redpath
Transparency, Accountability, Independence Independence is an essential feature of the proper exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Independence requires that justice be dispensed without ‘fear, favour or prejudice.’ Independence cannot exist alone: it must co-exist with accountability. Transparency is required to ensure accountability: if no-one is seen to be held accountable for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, how can the public ever have any assurance that decisions are not tainted or improper?
NPA Issue Paper 1: In search of strategy | by Lukas Muntingh
This paper problematises the strategy environment of the NPA and raises questions about how strategy is developed, the priorities set and how performance is measured. The overall impression is of a situation where strategy priorities and objectives emanate from different sources, but that the most measurable is what drives performance at operational level and not necessarily the most needed or most important to make the country safer and build trust in the state. The NPA finds itself in a complex strategy environment: various strategy documents not only have different time frames but also emanate from different sources and fundamentally different purposes. Finding harmony and synchronicity in this strategy environment must be difficult for the NPA leadership.
NPA Issue Paper 2: Knowledge, skills and human resources | by Lukas Muntingh
The capacity, knowledge, skills and experience of an organisation's workforce will determine largely the extent to which it is able to fulfil its mandate. The aim in this issue paper is to problematise this particular issue in a succinct manner with the view to build consensus on understanding the problem properly in order to develop effective short to medium term responses. Transparency and accuracy in reporting on the NPA's human resources is a notable problem. Three broad issues are explored, being vacancies, job satisfaction and skills requirements of prosecutors. The problems are not new and there is ample guidance from the literature and practice to address the issues.
