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Experts discuss HIV legal services in MENA

Lawyers, academics, and representatives of civil society organizations and UN agencies from across the Middle East and North Africa met this month in Egypt to discuss regional progress in strengthening and expanding HIV-related legal services.

Developing countries need legal support on NCDs

More than 45 experts on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) met in New York this week to discuss the legal and regulatory measures needed to respond to the growing global pandemics of NCDs, including diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular and chronic lung diseases.

IDLO Representative in Geneva presents credentials

(Geneva, February 1, 2016) Julian Fleet, the new Permanent Observer representing the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Michael

Barbara Prammer Symposium: Women. Refugees. Solidarity

Europe: Refugee System is Broken

The refugee crisis has clearly shown that the European refugee system is broken and must be fixed urgently

Human Rights: Climate's Good CoP

On Saturday 12th December in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, a momentous shift was made in the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. Just a month on from the devastating terrorist attacks, amidst security tensions, celebrated news came out of the French capital with the announcement of the Paris Ag

Photo Gallery: Assembly of Parties 2015

Expanding Membership for IDLO

Honduras, Mongolia and Pakistan have formally joined IDLO, taking the number of Member Parties to 30. The three countries were unanimously welcomed as IDLO Members at the organization's Assembly of Parties, currently underway at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. At the event, Irene Khan was confirmed as IDLO's Director-General for a second four-year term.

Harare HIV Consultation

People living with HIV and HIV legal experts from around the world are to convene in Harare, Zimbabwe, later this month for the 3^rd Inter-regional Consultation on HIV-related legal services and rights, organised by IDLO.

Key Initiatives

Global RECAP: Capacity building to prevent NCDs

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes represent a major challenge for sustainable development and the achievement of Agenda 2030. They hamper social and economic development, increase inequalities, and perpetuate poverty. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), each year NCDs contribute to the deaths of 17 million people under the age of 70, with 86% of these premature deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries.
Capacity building programme to support the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol

The entry into force of the Nagoya Protocol in 2014 represented a major milestone in the global commitment to promote access and benefit sharing (ABS) of the use of genetic resources in a fair and equitable way. As of August 2017, 100 Parties in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) had ratified the Nagoya Protocol, and many now need to adopt national measures to operationalize it at the domestic level.