In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the deleterious effect it has had on prisoners and detainees, ILAC member International Bridges to Justice (IBJ), based in Geneva, quickly responded by creating a toolkit for defence attorneys around the world on…
Responding to an urgent need for leadership in the face of the dire challenges confronting all areas of criminal justice systems worldwide, ILAC member International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) has frequently convened its global community and subsequently formulated a three-pronged…
ILAC’s member, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), has initiated a blog series in which RWI researchers and experts from the organisation’s network highlight and investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on fundamental human rights worldwide. …
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…
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…
Amidst the unprecedented global crisis of Covid-19 pandemic, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has launched what will be a weekly summary of updates regarding human rights violations taking place across the globe, occurring as a consequence of, and under the…
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…
ILAC Policy brief #5
Words from the ILAC Executive Director, Agneta Johansson. After a spring with a plethora of webinars, I believe we are all experiencing a bit of a COVID-19 fatigue. Even so, our members and partners are tackling concrete justice issues related…
