RECAJUD aims at reinforcing the capacities of members of the entire judicial system to protect and enforce detained persons’ rights. It particularly targets vulnerable people and the promotion of alternative sentences and penalties.

Hence, RECAJUD project has two main focus:

• Promotion of detained persons’ rights and handling of the most blatant cases (e.g lack of detention warrant, expiry of preventive detention duration, discrimination, etc.)

• Promotion of an effective exercise of alternative sentences and penalties in relevant cases.

The project will be conducted in Bafoussam, Bamenda, Limbe/Buea and Yaoundé during 21 months with the following actions being carried out:

• Training law practitioners in terms of rules which guarantee the rights of people which are deprived of their freedom, in particular members of vulnerable groups

• Free legal consultations within prisons and handling of cases

• Round table discussions about access to justice and alternative sentencing for people deprived of freedoms

• Advocacy with the authorities for the signature of the implementation decree and/or the effective application of alternative sentencing

• Awareness campaigning in regard to individuals who have been deprived of their freedom

The conduct of the RECAJUD Project will be carried out hand in hand with the national network of Human Rights organisation in Cameroon (RECODH) and Lawyers Without Borders Cameroon. The Crises and Support Center from the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs and the embassy of France in Cameroon support the project.