{"id":395715,"date":"2020-12-08T12:37:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=395715"},"modified":"2020-12-08T12:37:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T17:37:32","slug":"open-society-welcomes-african-courts-ruling-against-arbitrary-vagrancy-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/open-society-welcomes-african-courts-ruling-against-arbitrary-vagrancy-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Society Welcomes African Court\u2019s Ruling against \u201cArbitrary\u201d Vagrancy Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mw_release\">\n<p>NEW YORK, Dec.  08, 2020  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; On December 4, a continental court in Africa delivered a landmark opinion on colonial era vagrancy laws, which criminalize activities such as loitering, public indecency, and begging. The judgment has the potential to help reshape criminal justice policy and practice in dozens of African countries and reduce prison overcrowding.<\/p>\n<p>The African Court on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights issued an Advisory Opinion in response to a case brought by the Pan African Lawyers Union and found that vagrancy laws or bylaws in nearly every country in Africa discriminate against marginalized populations including women, children, people with disabilities, and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese vague and arbitrary laws, rooted in the era of empire law making, are used to arrest and imprison thousands of poor and marginalized people every day including the poor and the homeless, street children, migrants, people with disabilities, sex workers, LGBTI people, and drug users,\u201d said Louise Ehlers, of the Open Society Foundations. \u201cThis judgment has the potential to significantly reduce exposure to police violence and incarceration for these communities, both in Africa and in other places grappling with a colonial legacy of vague, discriminatory criminal law,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Open Society Justice Initiative filed an\u00a0amicus\u00a0brief in the case, citing the urgent need to decriminalize vagrancy laws in light of the COVID-19 pandemic because the laws over-incarcerate poor and marginalized people, putting them at greater risk of contracting the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is in the interest of\u00a0African states to implement this advisory opinion\u00a0by repealing all vagrancy laws, which reinforce structural discrimination and penalize poverty,\u201d said Stanley Ibe, associate legal officer for Africa at the Open Society Justice Initiative. \u201cSince vagrancy laws contribute to dangerously overcrowded prisons, a hotbed of COVID-19, failing to do so could have disastrous consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Belgian colonists used vagrancy laws to control the streets. They were intentionally broad and vaguely defined, giving law enforcement wide discretion to arrest and detain just about anyone.<\/p>\n<p>These laws are still in place in many former colonies. For example, the very same language introduced to British colonies through the English Vagrancy Act of 1824 is still in use today in some places. In\u00a0Botswana, the Gambia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia, you can still be cited for being a \u201crogue and a vagabond.\u201d\u00a0The penal codes of at least 18 former French colonies, including\u00a0Algeria, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Republic of Congo, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Senegal, and Togo contain a\u00a0similarly worded offense of \u201cvagabondage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This African Court opinion provides clarity on the discriminatory nature of these laws. This will bolster efforts to strike them down in domestic and regional courts across Africa and provide a foundation to limit their enforcement by the police in the short term. This pronouncement, coming from\u00a0Africa\u2019s apex court will also\u00a0add legal weight and moral authority to\u00a0broader efforts to address the legacy of slavery, colonialism, and structural racism on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a significant legal victory as it sends a clear message to policymakers across Africa,\u201d added Ehlers. \u201cThese arcane laws have no place in open, inclusive societies and need to be repealed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/Tracker?data=3H6qujtJNv5U9_12pf8M7ZayMxua4UNPx5sGfMwOPWwlXeo7Uwt3_16Plg_ibFqYfZEH5CvTYjZKqfIcNh7cz1WLCEe83948g-nKRtpoRG_YfiQ-ks7k8c-DcVnaMErF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Open Society Foundations<\/a>, founded by George Soros, are the world\u2019s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights. We provide thousands of grants every year through a network of national and regional foundations and offices, funding a vast array of projects\u2014many of them now shaped by the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <strong>Contact:<\/strong><br \/>\n        <br \/>Office of Communications<br \/>Open Society Foundations<br \/>media@opensocietyfoundations.org<br \/>(212)-548-0668<\/p>\n<p \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"__GNW8366DE3E__IMG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/newsroom\/ti?nf=ODA5ODgzMiMzODU2OTgzIzUwMDA3NjE2OA==\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"__GNW8366DE3E__IMG\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/release\/track\/56e8e534-e22d-415d-89f3-4670a4c76fb7\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"mw_contactinfo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Dec. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; On December 4, a continental court in Africa delivered a landmark opinion on colonial era vagrancy laws, which criminalize activities such as loitering, public indecency, and begging. The judgment has the potential to help reshape criminal justice policy and practice in dozens of African countries and reduce prison overcrowding. The African Court on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights issued an Advisory Opinion in response to a case brought by the Pan African Lawyers Union and found that vagrancy laws or bylaws in nearly every country in Africa discriminate against marginalized populations including women, children, people with disabilities, and others. \u201cThese vague and arbitrary laws, rooted in the era of empire law making, are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/open-society-welcomes-african-courts-ruling-against-arbitrary-vagrancy-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open Society Welcomes African Court\u2019s Ruling against \u201cArbitrary\u201d Vagrancy Laws&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Open Society Welcomes African Court\u2019s Ruling against \u201cArbitrary\u201d Vagrancy Laws - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/open-society-welcomes-african-courts-ruling-against-arbitrary-vagrancy-laws\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Open Society Welcomes African Court\u2019s Ruling against \u201cArbitrary\u201d Vagrancy Laws - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NEW YORK, Dec. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; On December 4, a continental court in Africa delivered a landmark opinion on colonial era vagrancy laws, which criminalize activities such as loitering, public indecency, and begging. 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