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The Global Legal Empowerment Network, which Namati convenes, brings over 7,500 individuals and 2,000 organizations from 160 countries together to tackle the most pressing justice challenges of our time. When a domestic worker is denied her wages or a community’s drinking water is poisoned by toxic runoff, we stand with them. We empower them to…

On May 29th, the Global Legal Empowerment Network organized a webinar where we had the opportunity to talk and discuss with experts about the content and relevance of the recently adopted Escazú Agreement, a powerful tool to strengthen environmental democracy, advance justice in environmental matters and protect environmental defenders in Latin America and the Caribbean. For the webinar, the following…

To the Editor: Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros argue convincingly for a new, third-generation approach to international human rights that focuses on the enforcement of laws at the country level. But their assertion that no human rights organizations or government agencies measure success by their “ability to bring effective law enforcement to local communities in…

Introduction A previous article by the author explored the work and impact of community-based paralegals in the lives of ordinary people in rural areas, through the lens of a number of case studies depicting real life justice problems of individuals and how paralegals helped resolve them. That effort intended to provide an illustrative window into…

By HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. To address long-term development in a way that is authentic to the Arab world, countries in the region will need to break free from the practices of the past. As the Arab Spring showed, the consequences of ignoring the voices of the marginalized can cause profound instability.

On March 22, 2011, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) found Kenya to be in violation of the African Children’s Rights Charter. The case and verdict were based on the discriminatory rules and practices applied to Nubian children that denied them formal recognition of their Kenyan nationality. Without…

Wolfensohn was the ninth president of the World Bank Group (1995-2005) and served as Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement for the Quartet on the Middle East. As president of the World Bank, he travelled to more than 120 countries in order to pursue the challenges facing the World Bank in regard to poverty and environmental issues. He successfully…

Nobel-prize winning economist Sen is regarded as one of the world’s foremost thinkers in the field of famine, poverty, social choice and welfare economics. His scholarship has notably observed that development is a measure of freedom, and that legal empowerment is an avenue by which the poor can increase freedom in the areas that most…

Clark is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. Prior to her appointment with UNDP, Clark served for nine years as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Throughout her tenure, Clark has consistently argued that legal empowerment of the poor is critical to achieving and sustaining the Millennium Development Goals.

Ibrahim is a global expert in mobile communications with a distinguished academic and business career. He is the founder of Celtel International, one of Africa’s leading mobile telephone companies. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation hosts the Ibrahim index, which ranks African countries according to governance quality, and issues the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.