At a ceremony on 30 November, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was given the Stockholm Human Rights Award 2010 for her life-long service to the rule of law and human rights and for her…
ILAC has sponsored the training of four Liberians as court reporters for the Liberian courts of records. The current process of making verbatim record in these courts is both slow and inaccurate. With funding from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign…
The report documents a pressing need for judicial reform. Public confidence in the judicial system has virtually collapsed. A lack of independence in the judiciary, corruption, delays in court processes, and the costs associated with using the court system, have…
ILAC/IBA Mission to Democratic Republic of Congo ILAC and the International Bar Association sent a joint team of experts to the Democratic Republic of Congo 5-18 February 2009, for an assessment of the judicial system. The mission visited the capital…
