IDLO Completes Successful Inception Mission in Haiti
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IDLO has completed a successful inception mission in Haiti to determine the immediate legal needs of vulnerable groups affected by the earthquake of January 12, 2010. Despite significant challenges, IDLO was able to meet with a number of Haitian government and institutional leaders, as well as humanitarian relief actors working under the umbrella of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA). IDLO received enthusiastic support from those it met, and its preliminary findings on the post-disaster legal needs in Haiti have already been endorsed by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
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Disaster Brings Greater Risk of Child Trafficking, and Need for Protection
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With disasters bringing an increased risk of trafficking in children, the International Development Law Organization warns that legal standards preventing the problem must be followed. Trafficking is a global issue affecting large numbers of children. Some estimates have as many as 1.2 million children being trafficked every year. Child trafficking is known to be one of the most lucrative and fast growing transnational crimes, and reckoned to be generating up to $10 billion annually.
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New Book on Legal Empowerment Strategies
At a launch event in Geneva, IDLO released a new book examining issues in the emerging development field of legal empowerment. Legal Empowerment: Practitioners' Perspectives, edited by Stephen Golub, contributes empirical knowledge to the debate on how disadvantaged populations will best secure their economic and social rights. It is the second publication in an IDLO book series entitled Lessons Learned: Narrative Accounts of Legal Reform in Developing and Transition Countries.
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