On this page we will profile current projects on police accountability. Please contact us if you would like to submit details about your project.
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Round Table on the Oversight of Non-State Policing in South Africa |
The OSF-SA hosted a round table discussion on 10 March 2005 to explore non-state policing oversight. It forms part of a larger conversation on policing oversight which has unfolded over the past two years under the banner of another OSF-SA project, on strengthening police oversight in South Africa.
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African Security and Justice Programme |
The ASJP is an African focused and globally engaged theoretically oriented teaching and research programme attached to the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) Chair of Security and Justice funded through the South African Department of Science and Technology.
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Regulation of the Private Security Sector in Africa. ISS and IDRC |
The ISS and the IDRC are responsible for this project
The past decade has seen rapid growth in the private security industry, both in Africa and globally. Private security companies have diversified their activities to include military advice and training, arms procurement and intelligence gathering, among others. As a result many Africa governments have engaged the services of internationally –operating companies. The presence of these organizations in Africa has raised questions related to accountability and democratic oversight of the defense sector, the extent to which governments, the United Nations and relief agencies are outsourcing key ‘state’ functions and the influence that these companies gain in the process.
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The Kwazulu Natal Campaign against Torture based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal |
In a society presently dominated by a culture of violence, CAT KZN aims to help establish a human rights culture as enshrined in the SA Constitution (andthe Bill of Rights), and supported by Chapter Nine Institutions in South Africa.
Working to eradicate torture and abusive practices of interrogation; Creating awareness of the existence of torture (by sharing our experiences); Creating awareness of the Optional Protocol,especially in KZN; and Lobbying the South African Government to ratify the Optional Protocol.
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The Southern Africa Human Rights NGO Network (SAHRINGON) |
The Southern Africa Human Rights NGOs Network (SAHRINGON) was established in February 1997 at the Regional Human Rights Network Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Regional Training Needs and Planning Workshop was a continuation of the SAHRINGON campaign that started in 1998. This campaign was based on the recognition that police brutality was a manifestation of torture in the region and a threat to such rights as life, dignity, liberty and non-discrimination.
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Nigeria |
The project on Monitoring Police Conduct During Elections involved a
partnership between the PSC (Nigerian Police Service Commission) , the
Open Society Justice Initiative and the Centre for Law Enforcement
Education (CLEEN), with additional funding support from the United
Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the United
Nations Electoral Assistance Division (UNEAD)
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Roundtable Conference on Police Reform in East Africa. Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative |
CHRI successfully organised a Roundtable conference on police reform in April 2003 at Nairobi, in partnership with another NGO in the region, Kenya Human Rights Commissions (KHRC).
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