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By Irene Khan, Director-General, IDLO
The world's largest gathering on crime prevention and criminal justice, the United Nations Crime Congress, has just concluded in Doha, Qatar,...
by Christopher Kerkering
Somalia’s 20-year civil war has wrought untold damage on individuals, communities, and the governing structure. Nevertheless, significant strides have been made in raising the country from failed to functioning state,...
IDLO has partnered with UNICEF to study the factors which support or inhibit children’s equitable access to justice in post-communist societies. The nine-month research project in Albania, Montenegro, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan will conclude in 2014. It...
Kenya's 2010 Constitution, whose implementation benefited from IDLO expertise, had helped build trust and confidence in the country's judiciary, IDLO Director of Global Initiatives Ted Hill said at a public lecture in The Hague this week. The...
Good laws are one thing; implementation is another. Texts and statutes are critical instruments in advancing the rule of law -- but their benefits are limited if those tasked with their application, let alone their intended beneficiaries, fail...
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...
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...
In a recent interview with Spanish daily El País, star footballer Carlos Tévez confessed that, as a child growing up on the streets of the ominously-named Fuerte Apache estate just outside Buenos Aires, his biggest fear was to be detained by police...
“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,...
STATEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION
59TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
March 17, 2015
New York
Delivered by Cianna O'Connell
[Check against delivery]
Chair,
Excellencies,...
"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...
STATEMENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION
28TH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
ANNUAL FULL-DAY MEETING ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
12 March 2015
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Delivered by Hector Guerra
Mr....
STATEMENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION
28TH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF
10 March 2015
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland...
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. Joining the...
After a taste of serving as judges, final year law students in Kyrgyzstan were won over by a role they’d previously dismissed as a career option.
More than 30 students from the Kyrgyz National University’s Faculty of Law took part in the second...