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Pages tagged "Covid-19"


The Impact of COVID-19 on Children in Low Income Countries: Resource Deficits and Institutional Gaps in Child Diversion Programmes and Other Services for Children in Conflict with the Law in Malawi

Posted on Latest News by Irli · March 13, 2021 2:59 PM
By Lindiwe Sibande

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an immense shock to societies and economies globally. In more recent months, as a second more severe wave has affected more low-income countries, pre-existing strains on resources and gaps in institutional capacity have further been exacerbated. This article discusses the impact that COVID-19 has had on children in Malawi and further illustrates the additional impact faced by children in conflict with the law.

Children and Covid-19 measures in Malawi

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Judicial Responses to Covid-19 in Malawi

Posted on Latest News by Irli · March 10, 2021 5:30 PM
By Susie Kiely

 

Practical sociocultural, educative and incentivising strategies are what is needed to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic nationally, not - though popular the world over - the transfer of the burden to the blunt instrument of criminal law, which often proves ineffective and dangerous, and disproportionally disadvantages the most vulnerable of society.

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COVID and Policing in Malawi

Posted on Latest News by Irli · March 02, 2021 3:30 PM
By Tyler Holmes

 

Through late February, three times as many official cases of Covid-19 have been identified in 2021 as there were in 2020. And police warnings about using force to affect the lockdown have come true in beatings and arrests.

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COVID-19 Highlights the Inability of the Malawian Criminal Justice System to Cater to the Needs of Persons with Mental Health Conditions

Posted on Latest News by James Douglas · February 19, 2021 9:16 AM
by Lawyer Andrea Vizsolyi, Director of IRLI’s Public Prosecution’s Programme from our Malawi Project.

 

Resources for those with mental health conditions in Malawi are severely limited (there is only one psychiatric hospital in the country), and criminal justice actors lack requisite sensitivity and/or knowledge in dealing with mental health conditions. This makes the frequent limbo of such accused persons dangerous to themselves and those surrounding them.

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Masks for Malawi

Posted on Latest News by Kate Gauld · September 02, 2020 9:31 PM

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Malawi, IRLI has provided over 35,000 cloth masks for all prisoners and prison staff in 31 prisons and reformatory centres.

 

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COVID-19: Joint Civil Society Statement about Malawi's Prisons

Posted on Latest News by Kate Gauld · September 02, 2020 1:21 PM

On July 17th 2020 IRLI released a joint civil society statement calling for renewed efforts to decongest Malawi’s prisons, following recent confirmed cases of COVID-19 in two separate prisons across Malawi.

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