Responding to an urgent need for leadership in the face of the dire challenges confronting all areas of criminal justice systems worldwide, ILAC member International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) has frequently convened its global community and subsequently formulated a three-pronged…
ILAC’s member, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), has initiated a blog series in which RWI researchers and experts from the organisation’s network highlight and investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on fundamental human rights worldwide. …
Amidst the unprecedented global crisis of Covid-19 pandemic, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has launched what will be a weekly summary of updates regarding human rights violations taking place across the globe, occurring as a consequence of, and under the…
ILAC is pleased to welcome Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) and Mr Fernando Peláez-Pier as new members of the consortium. Both were unanimously elected to join ILAC by our 2020 Annual General Meeting held virtually on 28 May. ILAC’s added value is its members. We…
Words from the ILAC Executive Director, Agneta Johansson. After a spring with a plethora of webinars, I believe we are all experiencing a bit of a COVID-19 fatigue. Even so, our members and partners are tackling concrete justice issues related…
During May, ILAC’s member the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) hosted four webinar sessions, in both English, Spanish, and French, discussing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different areas of the justice sector. IAWJ members from all over the world talked about various…
ILAC’s member the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice’s Lawyers Council for Civil and Economic Rights has written the report “Corruption in Times of COVID-19: A Regional Perspective on Public Procurement”, which covers perspectives on corruption in the Latin American region…
ILAC’s member CEELI Institute has announced the release of their first podcast series Safeguarding the Rule of Law in Challenging Times.This series encapsulates the unique legal challenges of the day and will feature interviews, conversations, and reports with learning judges, civil society actors, and representatives of European institutions…
In 2018, ILAC’s member Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice convened the first international conference of women prisoners’ advocates in Bogota, Colombia, an event co-sponsored by Penal Reform International. Out of this conference was created the first-ever global network of advocates for women prisoners: The Women in…
