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18 July, 2016
IDLO representatives are participating this week in the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, which is said to be the largest conference on any global health or development issue. More than 18,000 health experts, academics,...
In 100 countries worldwide, women are barred from doing certain work solely because they are women. Over 150 countries have laws that are discriminatory to women, and only 18 countries are free of such laws. In 32 countries, women cannot apply for...
World leaders have committed to ending AIDS by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals, but stigma and discrimination remain significant obstacles. In particular, police are critical, front-line determinants of risk for many people living...
According to some estimates, one in three Mongolian women is a victim of domestic violence and approximately one-half of all administrative detainees and one-quarter of criminal detainees have been held for domestic violence-related offenses. To...
IDLO's Victoria Harrison Neves, spoke to our Country Representative for Myanmar, Kartik Sharma, about the transition underway in that country, the opportunities for supporting the rule of law at this time, and the practicalities of working in...
STATEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION
32nd Session of the Human Rights Council: annual full-day discussions on the human rights of women
June 16, 2016
Geneva
Delivered by Charlotte Horekens, Office of the...
STATEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION
32nd Session of the Human Rights Council: High-Level Panel on the 10th anniversary of the Human Rights Council
June 13, 2016
Geneva
Delivered by Julian...
The rule of law has often been regarded as an abstract concept in development circles, a poor second cousin to the tangible targets set by the eight Millennium Development Goals. But that changed in January 2015, with the adoption by the African...
We live in a highly unfair and unsafe world and no one knows that better than young people, Irene Khan, Director-General of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) told a high-level side event at the 32nd session of the United Nations...
Promoting increased accountability for sexual and gender-based violence in Liberia.
In 2016, IDLO launched a two-year program in Liberia funded by the U.S. Department of State: “Promoting Increased Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based...
The Myanmar Union Attorney General H.E. U Tun Tun Oo visited the Yangon Rule of Law Centre where he met with staff and graduates from the rule of law courses and observed an ongoing ‘training of trainers’ course.
The Yangon ...
As part of IDLO's program in Benin, the Benin Association for Law Development and IDLO, with the...
“Overcoming environmental destruction is an act of justice”, said Helene Molinier, IDLO’s Program Manager of Strategic Initiatives, at the opening of Connecting the Dots Across the SDGs: Lessons in Biodiversity Mainstreaming. The workshop was...
“There is no peace and security without democratic governance and development. We need to invest in the rule of law and human rights,” opened George Mukundi Wachira, Head of the African Governance Architecture (AGA) Secretariat, African Union (AU)...
More than 120 participants attended a three-day symposium in South Sudan, organised by the College of Law (COL) and supported by IDLO, to promote awareness of and dialogue on contemporary human rights issues. Discussions focused on the process of...