AdvocAid: On Thursday, February 15, 2024, AdvocAid Sierra Leone engaged members of the Legislative and Human rights committees in Parliament on the decriminalisation and declassification of petty offences otherwise known as “misdemeanours” in Sierra Leonean law. The engagement falls under the project titled: Decriminalising Poverty; Advocating for Legal Reforms on Petty Offences in Sierra Leone. 

The organisation in partnership with the Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL), is aiming at decongesting the country’s overcrowded correctional facilities through legal reforms such as repealing laws deemed to be applied subjectively to affect a selected group of people, particularly those who work in the informal sector of the country.

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