Maintaining the momentum, after riding on the crest, is often our weakness. We are activity driven and policy or law does not get seriously influenced through such an approach. Advocacy is a planned process, effort intensive and requires a movement or group of organisations, united in mission and committed to[Read More…]
Opinion
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia Should Repeal The Archaic Official Secret Act
The Washington Post’s slogan, ‘Democracy dies in darkness,” is a good start, but a more populist appeal might be more effective: What are the politicians hiding from you? What do they not want you to know? Have they forgotten they work for you? Once that point is made, there will[Read More…]
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: In Defense Of Law And Morality
Lawyers must stand up for what is true, what is honorable, what is right, what is pure, what is of good repute, what is excellent and worthy of praise, this is the transcendent essence of the lawyers’ oath. When judges and lawyers hesitate to do the right thing for fear[Read More…]