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Center for Human Rights
Center for Human Rights, 19 Main Road Congo Town, Freetown
Tel:+232 33 98 18 68 or +232 33 87 63 59
Email: ibkpasha@yahoo.com
Contact Person: Ibrahim Badamasi Kamara, LLB, LLM, Director
The Centre for Human Rights (CFHR) is a national human rights NGO located in Freetown. CFHR’s mission is to enhance human rights, good governance, and the rule of law, using a combination of law and advocacy. CFHR focuses on legal aid, access to justice, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights, juvenile justice, HIV/AIDS, environment and developmental issues. Their services include pro bono legal services, psychosocial counselling, public interest litigation, and advocacy.
Chariot Eight
www.cheight.com
Chariot Eight: 51A MainMotor Road, Wilberforce, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Email: info@cheight.com or bchaytor@cheight.com
Chariot Eight law firm is a general corporate practice law firm providing a spectrum of legal services to national and international clients. Ms Chaytor can provide assistance to lawyers representing asylum seekers through confirming Sierra Leonean legal documents and by providing general legal information about Sierra Leone.
ANTI-FGM/C ORGANISATIONS IN SIERRA LEONE
Amazonian Initiative Movement (AIM)
http://www.aim-sierra-leone.de
12 Kamara Street Lunsar
Tel: +232 76 73 85 17, +232 30810 998, +23276 292852
Email: aimsl2001@yahoo.co.uk
AIM is an independent women’s rights organization with the main focus of ending FGM/C.
Center for Human Rights
Center for Human Rights, 19 Main Road Congo Town, Freetown
Tel:+232 33 98 18 68 or +232 33 87 63 59
Email: ibkpasha@yahoo.com
Contact Person: Ibrahim Badamasi Kamara, LLB, LLM, Director
The Centre for Human Rights (CFHR) is a national human rights NGO located in Freetown. CFHR’s mission is to enhance human rights, good governance, and the rule of law, using a combination of law and advocacy. CFHR focuses on legal aid, access to justice, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights, juvenile justice, HIV/AIDS, environment and developmental issues. Their services include pro bono legal services, psychosocial counseling, public interest litigation, and advocacy.
Self Help and Development Everywhere (SHADE)
17 Kukuna Road, Kambia
Email: shadesalone@gmail.com
Founded in 2008, SHADE works in Kambia in various sectors but with specifically women and girls in order to help them realize their full potential. Thus, it has been a critical partner in women empowerment, gender issues and peace building process in Kambia District. SHAEDE is involved in broader activities including facets of psycho-social recovery, general sensitization (community capacity building) with great emphasis on peaceful co-existence and fostering unity in the district. SHADE has helped to build bridges between various sectors of society and continues building network synergies at district level as part of its collaborative efforts in a bid to reinforce and strengthen its ongoing sensitization on gender based violence and harmful traditional practices like FGM/C. The organisation’s strategies in the involvement of local groups provide a sense of ownership of such a delicate endeavor. This significant endeavor aims to foster coexistence, reconciliation, mutual tolerance and respect in the communities. This was done by providing training that contributes to such relations through dialogue, workshops and other structured experiences.
Wesleyan Church of Sierra Leone
Women In Crisis Movement (WIC)
http://www.wicmovement.org
137B Hospital Road Kissy Dock Yard Freetown
Tel: +232 – 76926664 /76926664/ 88675740
Email: womenicmsl@gmail.com
WIC seeks to improve the status of women and young girls in extremely difficult socio-economic circumstances through vocational skills training and the promotion of gender issues, including better access to Reproductive Health Services.