Justice Africa

Justice Africa "is a research institute and advocacy organisation founded in 1999 in London to campaign for human rights and social justice across Africa."

Funding

National Endowment for Democracy: Grants By Country

Partners

Partners involved in or supporting our programme work include:

• The Africa Centre (UK)
• AllAfrica.com (USA)
• Atiamah Charitable Trust (UK and Ghana)
• Centre for Democracy and Development (UK, Nigeria and Ghana)
• Centre for Policy Research and Dialogue (Ethiopia)
• Centre for Policy Studies (South Africa)
• Conflict, Security and Development Group, King’s College London (UK)
• Democracy in Africa Research Unit, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
• Fahamu (UK and South Africa)
• FEMNET (Kenya)
• Harvard University Global Equity Initiative (USA)
• Makerere University (Uganda)
• Open Society Foundation for Southern Africa (South Africa)
• Open Society Justice Initiative (Nigeria)
• Pan African Development Education and Advocacy Programme (UK, Nigeria and Uganda)
• Policy Project (South Africa)
• Royal African Society (UK)
• Social Science Research Council (USA)
• Sudan Organisation Against Torture (UK and Sudan)
• Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa)
• UK Systems Society (UK)
• United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo [MONUC]
• World Council of Churches (Kenya)

People

Accessed November 2007: Directors

• Alex de Waal
• Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
• Yohannes Ajawin

Programme Staff

• Hafiz Mohammed - Sudan Programme hafiz@justiceafrica.org
• Alastair Roderick - HIV/AIDS Programme alastair@justiceafrica.org

Trustees

• Richard Dowden - Director of the Royal African Society, and a long-standing and noted commentator on the politics of Africa; having previously been the Africa editor of The Economist. Richard also sits on the board of the African Arguments series of books published by Zed Books, which is jointly produced by Justice Africa.
• Christine Tominke Olaniyan, PADEAP - Programme Director of the Pan-African Development Education and Advocacy Programme (PADEAP). Christine currently works between London and the PADEAP Community Information centres in Kampala (Uganda) and Funtua (Nigeria).
• Sulaiman Rahal - Director of Nuba Survival, a Sudanese advocacy group, and Editor-in-Chief of the Nuba Vision newsletter. An epidemiologist by training, Suleiman has been devoted in the last decades to promoting the cause of these marginalised people, and campaigning for greater human rights in Sudan.

Researchers & Associates

• Jacob Bor - HIV/AIDS and Democracy in South Africa
• Jon Harle - JA website; HIV/AIDS and education
• Ephraim Kimotho - HIV/AIDS and Parliamentarians in Kenya
• Kintu Nyago - HIV/AIDS Activists in Uganda
• Roxanna Rawson - HIV/AIDS and Systems
• Charles Wendo - HIV/AIDS and the Press in Uganda

Project on HIV/AIDS in the Police and Other Uniformed Services

• Themba Masuku (South Africa)
• Fatima Elsheikh (Sudan)
• Alison Thompson (Sierra Leone)
• Darcel Gabriel-Nelson (Benin)

Contact

Web: http://www.justiceafrica.org