IDLO, Sweden Seal Partnership
(Rome, Italy) 17 June 2015 – Sweden and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) signed a multi-year partnership agreement in Rome on 12 June 2015.
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Statement on The Rule of Law, Peace and Security, Human Rights and Development
STATEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION
THE RULE OF LAW, PEACE AND SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT
February 27, 2014
New York
Remarks by Irene Khan, Director-General, IDLO
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Mr. Deputy Secretary General,
Excellencies, distinguished delegates,
Ladies and gentlemen,
"Justice in Focus" si ferma a Roma
La mostra fotografica “Sotto la lente: la giustizia e l’agenda post 2015”, organizzata e curata dall’Organizzazione Internazionale di Diritto per lo Sviluppo (IDLO) e dall’agenzia fotografica Majority World, farà parte dell’edizione 2015 di “Farnesina Porte Aperte
Indigenous Rights and the Post-2015 Debate
The rule of law must be used as a tool to vindicate the rights of indigenous people and to ensure that development in the post-2015 era protects their lives, livelihoods, resources and environments, urged Judit Arenas, Deputy Permanent Observer of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) to the United Nations.
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Partnerships for Safe Drugs
IDLO is tackling this challenge of FS with partners in the World Bank’s Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development. A consortium led by the Organization will develop an assessment tool to assist strengthen national legal frameworks to respond to this emerging challenge. The tool will be tested in Uganda in the course of 2015.
Legal Tools for Healthy Diets and Physical Activity
In 2014 IDLO signed agreements with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) to build legal capacity to address public health challenges. The initial focus is on obesity, diabetes, healthy diets and physical activity. Also in 2014, IDLO, the WHO and the University of Sydney convened the first regional consultation on overweight, obesity, diabetes and law in the Western Pacific.
Women and Business: Dismantling Barriers
“Women’s participation is a matter of basic human rights and democratic principles. We cannot afford not to include women. This is not simply a question of what benefits women, but of what benefits the whole of society,” Ioana Liana Cazacu, Romanian Secretary of State for Gender Equality, told participants at a roundtable on women, business and the rule of law in New York .
Italy Envoy Hails 'Strategic' IDLO Relationship
"Our relationship with IDLO is a strategic one," said Pierfrancesco Sacco as he presented his credentials to IDLO Director-General Irene Khan, on March 17. Ambassador Sacco is Italy's new envoy to the United Nations agencies in Rome, whose mandate encompasses IDLO. He takes over from Gianni Ghisi, a long-standing friend and staunch supporter of the Organization.
International Women's Day in The Hague
Organized by IDLO to coincide with International Women's day, the roundtable -- 'Making Law and Justice Work for Women' -- brought together practitioners, policy makers and experts from both the developed and developing worlds.
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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) kill 15 million people between the ages of 30 and 69, and over 86 per cent of these "premature" deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.The economic impact, including loss of income by people harmed by NCDs, the costs of treatment, and the impacts on families threaten international development. Through regulation and fiscal reforms, countries can promote healthy diets, physical activity, and other initiatives reducing the prevalence and harms of NCDs. -
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.
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