IDLO - International Development Law Organization

Legal Aid for Africa

Last year Legal Aid South Africa supported nearly 800,000 people who would otherwise have had no recourse to justice because they could not afford legal fees.

IDLO at Durban AIDS2016 Conference

IDLO representatives are participating this week in the 21^st International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, which is said to be the largest conference on any global health or development issue.

Special Issue on Police, Law Enforcement and HIV

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 with HIV (PLHIV) and members of other key affected populations (KAPs). The negative impact of adverse police behaviors and practices on HIV risk is well documented, and these risks undermine global efforts to end AIDS. Far less well documented, and less common, are attempts to ameliorate this impact by working to change police behaviors.

Uganda Report: Strengthening the Elimination of Falsified and Substandard Medicines

The full report on “Strengthening the Legal Environment for the Elimination of Falsified and Substandard Medicines” is now available. The report is the third product of the pilot and preliminary phase of a larger initiative to build a knowledge base and collection of tools to support a whole-of-government approach to manage the public health problem of falsified and substandard (FS) medicines in any country. See also the executive summary from the beginning stages

Mongolia: Hand in hand against domestic violence

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.

An historic window of opportunity for rule of law in Myanmar

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 such an environment.

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32nd Session of the Human Rights Council: Human rights of women

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

32nd Session of the Human Rights Council: 10th anniversary

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 Fleet, Permanent Observer to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, IDLO

Rule of law and access to justice are indivisible from development

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 Union of Agenda 2063, which included the rule of law as one of its seven ‘Aspirations’ for Africa.

Human rights, democracy and rule of law: the role of youth

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 32^nd session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Wi