“Wars never last forever. Syria needs a political solution. The Syrian regime killed thousands of people, but in the end we’re all Syrians, and after the revolution, we need to re-establish the concept of the state. People are confusing the…
The implementation of democracy and rule of law in post-conflict countries with weak democratic tradition, can not be imposed by “peace builders” from abroad. In the context of a post-conflict country where well-intentioned foreign entities scramble to re-establish justice, there…
Mazin Al-Balkhi, is the new ILAC representative, stationed in Gaziantep, Turkey, and working as Syrian project manager. Before the Syrian revolution, Mazin was a women rights defender, english teacher and a translator, and since the beginning of 2013 to the end of…
The next part of the ILAC program on training judges in Tunisia, will also include participants from Morocco.
On 24 January, ILAC and the Tunisian Ministry of Justice, signed a 3-year agreement on the continuation of the program “Training of Tunisian Judges”.
Cherif Bassiouni is sometimes referred to as the father of modern international criminal law. Born in Cairo in 1937, he has been central in the creation of every major instrument of international criminal law over the last fifty years, including…
ILAC has carried out a needs assessment related to rule of law and the justice system in Libya. Between the 16 and 24 of January 2013, a delegation composed of experts selected from ILAC’s member organizations visited Libya to examine…
Since the conference Libya- Rule of Law Priorities in February 2012, ILAC has prepared for the follow-up work in Libya, assessments, seminars, baseline studies and program design. This work will intensify during October and November 2012. Subject to financing, ILAC…
Stockholm Human Rights Award 2012 will honour the memory of Raoul Wallenberg, who was born 100 years ago. Against this background, this year´s laureates, Thomas Hammarberg and European Roma Rights Centre, are particularly well qualified. Thomas Hammarberg has during his…
