ILAC recently held a professional exchange on anticorruption for over 70 Cuban legal professionals in Havana. The exchange was part of ILAC’s rule of law programme and was implemented by ILAC’s member organisation the International Bar Association (IBA), in collaboration with our…
ILAC Policy brief #4 At the recent UN summit in New York, countries made a pledge for renewed efforts to strengthen their work to push on and build on the initial progress of lead countries’ progress on SDG 16. Different…
More than 250 Cuban lawyers received a diploma in international commercial law at a graduation ceremony at the University of Havana on 15 November. ILAC has coordinated the international commercial law course since 2016. The course is implemented by the International…
David Miliband and the global humanitarian aid and development organisation that he heads, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), received the 11th Stockholm Human Rights Award at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday 4 November 2019. Bestowed annually by the Swedish Bar Association, the International Bar Association (IBA) and…
ILAC Policy Brief #3 The Palestinian court system is subjected to rapid changes that risk causing irreparable damage to the rule of law and access to justice. An independent judiciary is one of the three branches of government and an…
A lot is at stake with the ongoing judicial nominations in Guatemala considering so much ground has already been lost for the rule of law. Guatemala’s Congress was slated to elect an entirely new judiciary in mid-October of this year.…
The International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) today released a new report entitled Still Looking for Justice: Customary Law, the Courts and Access to Justice in Liberia. In its report, ILAC examines the role of justice providers in Liberia. Under the country’s…
Blog piece by Ulrika Nilsson On the 15thSeptember Tunisians took to the polls in their second free and fair Presidential election since the revolution in 2011. Just as earlier polls had indicated, the vote came out in favour of two populist…
ILAC is pleased to welcome the World Justice Project as one of our rule of law member organisations. Represented by Joel Martinez, Engagement Director of the World Justice Project’s, the organisation was elected to join ILAC at our 2019 Annual General Meeting,…
