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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...
CARL DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR POLITICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
At the acme of 2018 elections campaigns, which seemed like a do-or-die affair, N’Daimoh A. Bangura dared to participate amidst intense violence, intimidation and discrimination, and defied these age-old barriers to women’s participation particularly in a...
…but reports of police firing live bullets at defenceless protesters in Kabala
I can't put anything past our Sierra Leone Police these days, but reports of police firing live bullets at defenceless protesters in Kabala today may have just taken police brutality to a whole new level. Unless the police can prove that those demonstrators were armed...
President Koroma has reportedly shared the findings of a 3-month covert surveillance he undertook of some public hospitals in Freetown
President Koroma has reportedly shared the findings of a 3-month covert surveillance he undertook of some public hospitals in Freetown. Among others, he found that some health care personnel sell drugs meant for the 'free health care' initiative; patients are...
CARL files lawsuits Challenging decisions against private schools by Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Education
Freetown, 5th October, 2015 – The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) in September filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Leone Preparatory School seeking a judicial review of the Ministry of Education's order in July that the school be closed. The suit was...