ACJR engages in high quality legal and empirical research, advocacy and empowerment which supports criminal justice reform in Africa.
Every year thousands of people are arrested and detained in Africa for petty offences. Many of these offences date back to colonial times, such as the offence of being ‘a rogue and vagabond’. Poor people bear the brunt of the enforcement of these laws. This is a call for the removal of such laws and their discriminatory enforcement.
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