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Scrap Vagrancy Laws – Advocates Appeal

In UpdatesPosted 19 May, 2021

With the increasing number of inmates in Ghana’s prisons, crime prevention organization Crime Check Foundation (CCF) has partnered with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) to advocate the...

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Crime Check Foundation & OSIWA partner on Decriminalizing Vagrancy Laws and Advocacy (DVLA) project

In UpdatesPosted 19 May, 2021

The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has extended funding support to Crime Check Foundation (CCF) in a collective quest to end laws, which criminalize the status of individuals...

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African Court’s Landmark Opinion Could Reduce Criminalization of Poverty, Prison Overcrowding

In UpdatesPosted 7 December, 2020

All Africa Open Society Foundations (New York)'s Press Release 4 December 2020 Today, a continental court in Africa delivered a landmark opinion on colonial era vagrancy laws, which criminalize activities...

Tags: African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, colonial era vagrancy laws, loitering, marginalized population, prison overcrowding
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