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Buenos Aires – April 10, 2013— For youth growing up in deprived neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, education is not always a top priority. Making a living, caring for family and a myriad of other factors often take precedence.  "I dropped out of...
United Nations, New York On April 8, 2013, IDLO’s Director-General Irene Khan delivered a statement on “Measuring the Effectiveness of Rule of Law” at an Open Roundtable on “Measuring the effectiveness of support to the rule of law” held at...
To mark World Health Day on April 7, 2013, IDLO Head of Social Development David Patterson issued a call to action.  Heart disease.  You don’t catch it from a toilet seat.  Cancer: it doesn’t spread through sneezing.  And...
Kuwait City – As the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) hosted a Training on Public Procurement and PPP in Kuwait City this week, participants stressed the importance of effective infrastructure and transparency throughout government...
Chaotic decolonization scenario, Marxist one-party state, war-ravaged nation, democracy, star economic reformer: in the last four decades, Mozambique has collected about as many labels as any developing country could. And in the past fifteen years,...
On Wednesday, IDLO Director-General Irene Khan met with the Minister of Justice of Mozambique, Benvinda Levi, and the Ambassador of Mozambique, Carla Elisa Mucavi, at IDLO’s offices in Rome.  Director-General Khan briefed Minister Levi and...
Recruiting for: court judges.  Remuneration: $300 to $600/month.  Duties:  dispensing justice;  helping foster a culture of law;  fixing the lights. No job advert...
BISHKEK, March 15, 2013 – An efficient judicial system is crucial to development. Yet from Moldova in the west to Mongolia in the east, underfunding of judicial systems remains the norm. Five countries in the region devote less than 0.5 percent of...
The International Development Law Organization (IDLO) today launched its newest and most ambitious project to date in Afghanistan: the Justice Training Transition Program (JTTP) made possible through the support of the Bureau of International...
Gender violence must cease to be a common currency, IDLO Director-General Irene Khan has said. The statement came during a debate hosted by the World Food Programme in Rome, involving all main international organizations based in the city...
An event organized by IDLO to coincide with the 22nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva heard from a great number of participants. Focusing on women’s access to justice, the meeting was supported by the Australian, Austrian and...
In the run-up to International Women’s Day, the Italian senator and veteran feminist talks to IDLO news editor Andre Vornic. Crammed in under the rafters of Rome’s Palazzo Madama, Emma Bonino’s office feels anything but stately. Angular yet...

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