On 17 March ILAC co-sponsered the launch of the The IBAHRI report ‘The role of the Universal Periodic Review in advancing human rights in the administration of justice’. The event took place inside the Palais des Nations, where the Human…
“Transition from what to what?” Sabine Michalowski, Professor at the University of Essex and head of the Essex Transitional Justice Network (ETJN) is an international leading expert on Transitional Justice. But not an unreserved advocate. Instead she sees the difficulties…
Elizabeth Howe, ILAC Chair, visited Tunis together with the ILAC MENA team on 10-12 February.
Dear ILAC friends, It is with mixed emotions we look back at 2015. It has truly been a difficult year during which ILAC has seen some significant changes.Some have been positive, some necessary and anticipated, others tragic.
On 30 November to 2 December over 30 Syrian Legal NGOs gathered in Gaziantep, Turkey, with the aim of forming a Syrian Legal Consortium. ILAC chair Elizabeth Howe and Head of Operations Per Lagerström participated in one of the sessions…
In front of an audience of more than 1000 people from the International and Stockholm legal, political and academic communities, this year’s Stockholm Human Rights Award was delivered on 24 November to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raʿad…
ILAC were invited by the human rights committee of AIJA, the International Association of Young Lawyers, to participate in a panel discussion at the AIJA half year conference in Istanbul on 18-21 November.
“Transitions from authoritarian rule or conflict pose a huge challenge, but also present important opportunities from both a rule of law and a broader development viewpoint.” says Rhodri Williams, ILAC Senior Legal Expert.
At the ILAC Council meeting 27 October, five very prominent international legal experts were invited as new individual members of ILAC.
