Vanessa Passos, Author at International Legal Assistance Consortium

Jueces como Constructores de Paz: ILAC Lanza una Serie de Documentos de Discusión sobre América Latina

June 17, 2022

Esta serie de documentos de discusión sobre América Latina se basa en el proyecto Jueces como Constructores de Paz y brinda recomendaciones redactadas por personas que imparten justicia en Colombia, Guatemala y México sobre cómo las y los jueces y las asociaciones judiciales pueden aumentar la seguridad, la independencia y la diversidad judicial mientras luchan contra la corrupción en América Latina.

Judges as Peacebuilders: ILAC Launches a Series of Discussion Papers on Latin America

ILAC Discussion Paper Series

WJP: The Twin Crises of Public Health and the Rule of Law: A World Justice Project Initiative on Rebuilding Healthy Societies

August 3, 2020

The World Justice Project is launching a multidisciplinary initiative to expand knowledge of the relationship between public health and the rule of law, and to identify measures to tackle the twin crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rule of…

ILF: Local Actions for Global Solutions HLPF Side-Event

July 15, 2020

On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, ILAC’s member the International Legal Foundation (ILF) will be featured in a virtual side event during the United Nations High-Level Political Forum to discuss how the organisation is advancing SDG16+ in Palestine. For months, the ILF’s team…

In Memoriam: Samir Annabi

July 10, 2020

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Samir Annabi on July 9, 2020, after a long illness. Born in 1944, Mr Annabi was a very well-respected Tunisian lawyer and an individual member of ILAC. With law…

ICJ: Israel – ensure full compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – new briefing paper

June 29, 2020

ILAC’s member the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) published a briefing paper examining Israel’s failure to implement and comply with certain obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The briefing examines a number of human rights…

A Pandemic is not the Time for Reforming Judicial Nominations in Guatemala

ILAC Policy brief #5

Available Now: ILAC 2019 Annual Report

May 28, 2020

The ILAC 2019 Annual Report is now available here. In 2019, before COVID-19 swept the world and brought about yet incalculable consequences to the justice sector, we saw that the justice gap already continued to widen, with 1.5 billion people having…

New ILAC Report on Guatemala’s Justice Sector: “A Window of Opportunity”

March 30, 2020

Stockholm, Sweden (31 March, 2020) – The International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) has released a new rule of law assessment report, “A Window of Opportunity: Support to the Rule of Law in Guatemala”. The report examines the state of Guatemala’s justice sector after…