Afro-Asian Association for Justice Development

We Promote Justice Reforms We Promote Police Reforms We Promote Gender Rights

The Afro-Asia Association for Justice Development (AAAJD) is a Partnership of two non-governmental organizations working on Police and Justice reform in the continents of Africa and Asia.

To advance justice in public safety, gender rights, election systems, and governance from a multicultural perspective and a south-south approach.

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Interrogating The Prosecution of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Kenya

The Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya) held the 13th in a series of its justice and rule of law webinars. The webinar was held on 30 June 2020 and it sought to interrogate the prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence (hereinafter SGBV) in Kenya; ICJ Kenya deeply appreciated the participation […]

Access to Justice for the Poor and Vulnerable in the midst of a Pandemic: the Nigerian Perspective

By Angela Uwandu, Head of Office, Avocats Sans Frontières France in Nigeria Introduction: Just as in many countries, at the beginning of the pandemic, the entire focus of the government was on the health response. Soon the impact of these measures on other sectors emerged in the face of lockdown in FCT, Lagos and Ogun […]

Public Participation and Assembly Under Covid-19: The Nigeria Experience

By Rita Ilevbare (Esq.), Executive Director, Gender Relevance Initiative Promotion (GRIP) On 11th March, 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared an outbreak of a new viral disease; Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. The virus was first identified in Wuhan on 17th November, 2019, by December, 2019; it had sufficiently spread enough to cause serious […]

COVID-19 and Violations of Democratic and Human Rights: The India Experience

Professor Abdul Shaban, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. The health emergency and bio-disasters which COVID-19 has wreaked, saw the governments across countries violating the democratic and human rights of their citizens. There are a few countries in Africa that do not have statutes and laws in place for the management of disasters like […]

Our Work Areasx

Police Reforms

In this field, AAAJD caries forward the work of the Altus Global Alliance of which the two member organizations CLEEN and IDC were founding members. Within police reforms, there is a thrust to make police stations citizen-centered.

Gender rights and gender-based violence (GBV)

Inequalities and adverse social positioning on the basis of gender mark all societies. In multi-cultural societies competing claims of gender, cultural identity and individual rights seek accommodation in existing social relations with States increasingly committed to human rights.

Governance reforms in post-colonial societies

In post-colonial countries of Africa and Asia, governance has been a prisoner of the colonial distrust in the citizen-government exchange. The interaction of the State vis-à-vis citizens continues to remain divergent, even antagonistic, in terms of realisation of the claims, entitlements and the basic rights..