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…
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 Richard Sannerholm Sustainable Development Goal 16 has been identified both as an outcome and an enabler of sustainable development [i]. It is not only intuitively appealing but also empirically correct. Try as we might we can’t do without institutions,…
ILAC Policy Brief #1 Although Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG 16) recognises that the rule of law is fundamental to sustainable development, the rule of law is at a crossroads. The formulation of SDG 16 takes a narrow view of…
Oftentimes when I lecture on human rights, which includes women’s rights, I explain to my students that the achievement of human rights and gender equality is a process rather than a fixed result. The struggle to achieve the fulfilment of…
ILAC will send a high-level delegation to attend the 72nd Session in the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York starting today. ILAC’s delegation has been invited to join the g7+ to discuss “Accelerating Progress toward SDG 16 – Vision of Access…
