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Andras Vamos-Goldman

Ashoka Fellow since Mar 2015

Switzerland

Credible accountability for atrocities such as war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity requires criminal justice professionals, trained to work internationally, who can be on the spot rapidly to obtain and preserve evidence. Yet national and international institutions often cannot find...

Raul Belens Jungmann Pinto

Ashoka Fellow since Nov 1990

Brazil

Planning consultant Raul Jungmann is tackling nothing less than the entire justice and security system in Brazil, working to reform its archaic institutions through popular participation.

Raul Belens Jungmann Pinto

Ashoka Fellow since Nov 1990

Brazil

IDEC - Instituto de Defesa da Cidadania

Planning consultant Raul Jungmann is tackling nothing less than the entire justice and security system in Brazil, working to reform its archaic institutions through popular participation.

Raul Belens Jungmann Pinto

Ashoka Fellow since Nov 1990

Brazil

IDEC - Instituto de Defesa da Cidadania

Planning consultant Raul Jungmann is tackling nothing less than the entire justice and security system in Brazil, working to reform its archaic institutions through popular participation.

Karen Tse

Ashoka Fellow since Feb 2004

Switzerland

International Bridges to Justice

Karen works to ensure that every man, every woman, every child in the world has effective defense council. More about Karen and her work.

Marjan Gryson

Ashoka Fellow since Nov 2015

Belgium

Touché

Luciana Delle Donne

Ashoka Fellow since Feb 2016

Italy

Made in Carcere

Evidence shows that inmates who are able to work while in prison are less likely to re-offend. Many programs around the world give prisoners new skills for a life away from criminality upon their release. This has been very difficult in Italy because a law - initially designed to protect the...

Luciana Delle Donne

Ashoka Fellow since Feb 2016

Italy

Made in Carcere

All’apice di una carriera di successo nel settore bancario, Luciana ha lasciato tutto ed è tornata a Lecce, sua città natale, per dedicarsi alla cura della sua comunità. Con il suo progetto Made in Carcere Luciana offre alle detenute dei lavori adeguatamente retribuiti mentre stanno ancora scontando...

A New League of ‘Barefoot Lawyers’ Will Transform Justice in the Next 15 Years

For the average person, a lawyer may conjure up the image of a professional in a buttoned-down jacket straight out of the legal drama Suits. But not to Nadim Hossain, a local pharmacist in the city of Khulna, Bangladesh. One of 300,000 Urdu-speaking Bangladeshis settled in a refugee camp set up by...

Annys Darkwa

Ashoka Fellow since Dec 2012

United Kingdom

Vision Housing

Annys Darkwa has identified that stable, quality housing is a key linchpin in the cycle of re-offending, and she is solving this public sector problem with a private sector solution.