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…
During May, ILAC’s member the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) hosted four webinar sessions, in both English, Spanish, and French, discussing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different areas of the justice sector. IAWJ members from all over the world talked about various…
ILAC’s member the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice’s Lawyers Council for Civil and Economic Rights has written the report “Corruption in Times of COVID-19: A Regional Perspective on Public Procurement”, which covers perspectives on corruption in the Latin American region…
ILAC’s member CEELI Institute has announced the release of their first podcast series Safeguarding the Rule of Law in Challenging Times.This series encapsulates the unique legal challenges of the day and will feature interviews, conversations, and reports with learning judges, civil society actors, and representatives of European institutions…
In 2018, ILAC’s member Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice convened the first international conference of women prisoners’ advocates in Bogota, Colombia, an event co-sponsored by Penal Reform International. Out of this conference was created the first-ever global network of advocates for women prisoners: The Women in…
Blog piece by Ulrika Nilsson, Ismaël Benkhalifa and Sélim Ben Abdesselem Despite the determination characterising its democratic transition, Tunisia remains a fragile state with a weak institutional framework. The Covid-19 crisis will only place added pressure on the country’s institutions,…
Blog piece by Lauren McIntosh, ILAC and Jaime Chávez Alor, Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice of the New York City Bar Guatemala is just one of the slew of countries like Brazil, Nicaragua and Hungary that was already…
