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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...
STATEMENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION
28TH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
FULL-DAY DISCUSSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS & CLIMATE CHANGE
(HRC res. 26/27)
06 March 2015
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland...
This op-ed was originally published in the Diplomatic Courier
If we want to end hunger then we must empower women. If we want to feed the planet then we must fight gender discrimination.
Many of us...
STATEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION (IDLO)
28TH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
GENERAL SEGMENT
5 March 2015
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Delivered by John Burley
Thank you Mr. President...
In the past month in Afghanistan:
a drug addict mutilated his wife’s genitals when she tried to prevent him from selling their baby; he’d previously served a three-year sentence for killing his first wife;
a man tried to sell his eleven-year...
On March 2, 2015 IDLO and Majority World opened a photography exhibition, "In Focus: Justice and the Post-2015 Agenda", at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. It features 35 images taken by photographers from Afghanistan, Bangladesh,...
STATEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION
HIGH-LEVEL GENERAL ASSEMBLY THEMATIC DEBATE ON “INTEGRATING CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA”
February 25, 2015
New York
Delivered by...
Two years after becoming the world’s newest nation in 2011, South Sudan was plunged into fresh fighting. The conflict between government and rebel forces has displaced at least one-and-half million people. Some two-and-a-half million...
Event Date
9 March, 2015
"Peace and justice cannot exist without a full realization of women's rights," The Hague Deputy Mayor Ingrid K. van Engelshoven told fellow panelists at a roundtable in the city. There was an ever-present need for what she called a...
On 20 February 2014, in the Bruno Volta district of Santiago del Estero, Argentina, youths working for the local “Access to Justice Center” kicked off their own campaign against institutional violence, and in particular against the ill-treatment...
As many as 80 lawyers, lecturers and civil society representatives have completed an IDLO-supported, three-month rule of law course in Myanmar -- to find their achievements commended by veteran pro-democracy activist and Nobel...
The EU has called on candidate country Montenegro to intensify efforts to consolidate the rule of law, fight organized crime and reduce corruption. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has meanwhile...
It was Valentine’s day – a time for celebrating love and friendship for many - but in Kunduz province Afghanistan, a newly-wed pregnant woman lost her baby, reportedly, in a brutal exorcism carried out by a local mullah.
Local media reports say...