CARL Launches Nationwide Human Rights Monitoring Project to Support Covid-19 Response Efforts

Thanks to funding from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), the Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) today launched a $40,000 project aimed at monitoring and documenting human rights violations, ensuring transparency and accountability in the management of Sierra Leone’s Covid-19 response funds, and supporting social mobilization efforts through media outreach. Through this initiative, CARL will work with 16 Human Rights Monitors and regional partners across the country to track and respond to human rights violations, providing legal assistance to victims of human rights abuses, and to the extent possible, keeping tabs on medical and food supplies provided by the government and its partners to hospitals and quarantine facilities. Read full text here of the press release