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Pre-Trial Detention Custody Time Limits: Ensuring Compliance in Malawi
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16/01/2013
OSISA and the Open Society Foundations Rights Initiative Defendants’ Rights Fund commissioned four Malawian organisations to conduct this research so as to better understand the current application of the law in respect of custody time limits and to outline a set of concrete proposals that would improve their implementation.
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Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA)
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12/12/2013
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Southern Africa Litigation Centre
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12/12/2013
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No Justice for the Poor: A Preliminary Study of the Law and Practice Relating to Arrests for Nuisance-Related Offences in Blantyre, Malawi
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09/07/2013
This research emanates from concerns by the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) and Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) specifically regarding the use of the Penal Code provisions relating to idle and disorderly persons and rogues and vagabonds in Malawi.
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Zambian Human Rights Commission
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Pre-trial detention in Zambia: Understanding caseflow management and conditions of incarceration
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25/07/2011
In order to better understand the use of pre-trial detention in southern Africa the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) – in partnership with the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA) and the Open Society Foundations Global Criminal Justice Fund (GCJF) – commissioned an audit of a sample of police stations, prisons and courts in Zambia to gather information on both the legal status of awaiting trial detainees and issues pertaining to conditions of detention in prisons and police stations.
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Sentencing and Prison Practices in Germany and the Netherlands: Implications for the United States
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01/11/2013
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Children Behind Bars: Growing Up in a Cambodian Prison
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15/10/2013
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Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA)
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03/10/2013
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is a growing African institution committed to deepening democracy, protecting human rights and enhancing good governance in the region. OSISA's vision is to promote and sustain the ideals, values, institutions and practices of open society, with the aim of establishing vibrant and tolerant southern African democracies in which people, free from material and other deprivation, understand their rights and responsibilities and participate actively in all spheres of life.
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