PRAWA was established on December 16th, 1994. In 1998 the organisation acquired observer status from the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR).
The organisation established the first Alternative to Violence Project in West Africa in August 1998 and in August 2002 it hosted the 10th International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA X) – The first ICOPA to be held in the Africa Continent.
Networks
PRAWA is an active member of the following Networks and Coalitions:
- International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA)
- African Security Sector Network (ASSN)
- African Correctional Services Association
- Network of Specialised Rehabilitation Centres for Treatment of Torture Survivors
- National NGO Coalition on Penal Reform in Nigeria and serves as the national secretariat for the Coalition)
