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Malawi launches new criminal justice case flow system
Author: Jean
Published: 31 Jul 2015
Mobile training unit members were trained in the last week of July 2015 on the new registers, case folders and court diary, designed to ensure pre-trial detainees do not get "lost" and that time limits in the criminal justice system are met.
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CSPRI co-hosts seminar on allocation of policing resources in South Africa
Author: Jean
Published: 24 Jul 2015
The Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry recommended that the South African Police Service (SAPS) review the allocation of police resources across South Africa, after finding that the comparative allocation to Khayelitsha compared to other policing areas was irrational and unjust. To date neither the relevant Minister nor the SAPS has responded to the Commission Report.
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CSPRI co-hosts seminar on allocation of policing resources in South Africa
Author: Jean
Published: 24 Jul 2015
The Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry recommended that the South African Police Service (SAPS) review the allocation of police resources across South Africa, after finding that the comparative allocation to Khayelitsha compared to other policing areas was irrational and unjust. To date neither the relevant Minister nor the SAPS has responded to the Commission Report.
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CSPRI works with LRF and RODI-KENYA on pre-trial audit
Author: Jean
Published: 20 Jul 2015
In June and July 2015 CSPRI worked with the Legal Resources Foundation (LRF) - Kenya, and Resource Oriented Development Initiative (RODI) toward commencing their work for Kenya's National Council on the Administration of Justice.
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CSPRI contributes to development of General Comment on Article 5
Author: Jean
Published: 08 Jul 2015
At the 56th ACHPR Ordinary Session, which was held in Banjul, The Gambia, from 21 April to 7 May 2015, the ACHPR Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa (CPTA) decided that its first General Comment on Article 5 and the prevention and prohibition of torture would examine the right to redress for victims of torture and other ill-treatment.
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