Across Africa, law is often presented as a neutral institution. Courts interpret statutes, lawyers argue cases, and judges apply legal principles. For many marginalised people, however, law is not an abstract system. It determines whether they can live freely, organise safely, access healthcare, or seek justice without risking arrest, exposure, or violence.
When lawyers, community advocates, social workers, human rights defenders and movement actors from Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Sierra Leone gathered in Lagos in April under the Bridge to Justice Project, the agenda appeared straightforward: to review and validate a Movement Lawyering Curriculum designed to strengthen access to justice for key populations and other vulnerable communities …
Every year on 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) draws attention to violence, exclusion and discrimination affecting sexual minorities and other vulnerable communities across the world. The 2026 theme, “At the Heart of Democracy,” raises a more uncomfortable question for democratic societies: what happens when certain groups experience public institutions …
Across Africa, law is often presented as a neutral institution. Courts interpret statutes, lawyers argue cases, and judges apply legal principles. For many marginalised people, however, law is not an abstract system. It determines whether they can live freely, organise safely, access healthcare, or seek justice without risking arrest, exposure, or violence.
When lawyers, community advocates, social workers, human rights defenders and movement actors from Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Sierra Leone gathered in Lagos in April under the Bridge to Justice Project, the agenda appeared straightforward: to review and validate a Movement Lawyering Curriculum designed to strengthen access to justice for key populations and other vulnerable communities …
Every year on 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) draws attention to violence, exclusion and discrimination affecting sexual minorities and other vulnerable communities across the world. The 2026 theme, “At the Heart of Democracy,” raises a more uncomfortable question for democratic societies: what happens when certain groups experience public institutions …
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