Dear ILAC friends, 2014 was a busy and exciting year for ILAC. The launching of the 3-year MENA Programme in January, funded by Swedish Sida and implemented by five of our member organisations, is a milestone in ILAC´s work and strengthens…
Elisabet Fura is the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund since 1 July 2016. She was the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman in Sweden where she served from 2012…
Anne Ramberg is the chairwoman of the Uppsala University board since 2020. Previously she was the Secretary General of the Swedish Bar Association for the period of 2000-2019 following 23 years as a practising lawyer. Mrs Ramberg holds a LLB…
ILAC came about from a recognition that the re-establishment of the rule of law in war-torn countries by legal assistance organisations needed to be more effectively managed and coordinated. In the late 1990s, several lawyers, foremost among them Mark S.…
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…
On 06 November, ILAC member organisation the Law Society of England and Wales arranged a UK launch for the new ILAC assessment report on the justice system in Guatemala. The public seminar brought together legal practitioners, law students, academics and…
Rule of law practitioners, ambassadors and experts on Latin America joined ILAC for the launch of its report on the Guatemalan justice sector in Washington DC last month. The launch was organised by ILAC member the American Bar Association Rule…
Stockholm, Sweden Based on the findings of its recent assessment report on Guatemala, the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) calls on the Government of Guatemala to demonstrate its commitment to overcoming corruption and impunity by reaffirming its support for the…
On May 31, ILAC together with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), organised a seminar on “Promoting Complementarity: How Can International Rule of Law Assistance Support Engagement with Customary Justice in Fragile Settings?” at Sida’s headquarters in Stockholm.
