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For five days in October, sixty-one justice practitioners from twenty-five countries came together at the Central European University (CEU) in Hungary for the second annual Legal Empowerment Leadership Course. The course is the only one of its kind in the world. It brings together leaders dedicated to legal empowerment to reflect on history, strategy, and…

An estimated four billion people around the world live outside the protection of the law, mostly because they are poor. They can be easily cheated by employers, driven from their land, preyed upon by the powerful, and intimidated by violence. Justice is simply out of reach for too many people.

PILnet, the Global Network for Public Interest Law, is seeking a Country Director for China. The position is based in Beijing or Hong Kong.

In 2005, I had the privilege of joining an eminent group of scholars and policy leaders to reexamine the poverty challenge from the perspective of the four billion poor people who are excluded from the rule of law. That initiative is now a common name for all members of the legal development community: The Commission…

 You can also listen to this episode on YouTube. SUMMARY How does a community preserve its right to determine its own destiny? Especially when decisions are being made without their input? In our first episode, we begin a journey to answer this question. We start in Argentina, where informal settlement communities are claiming a…

Nancy D. Sesay is a legal practitioner. She worked extensively with non-governmental organisations in Sierra Leone (including Legal Access for Women Yearning for Equality Rights and Social Justice-LAWYERS), promoting the rights of marginalized and vulnerable groups; particularly, women and children, in the areas of family law, human rights, juvenile justice, etc. During her work as…

The Mormugao Port is located at Vasco bay in the Mormugao taluka of Goa at the point where the Zuari river meets the Arabian Sea. This region is home to thousands of fisherfolk from the Karvi community who live along the beaches of Mormugao, Salcete and Tiswadi talukas. It is a natural  harbour that provides…

This report gives an overview of the meeting and the final outcome document ‘Jakarta Recommendations on Sustainable Development Goals, Access to Justice and Legal Aid in ASEAN’.

The World Justice Forum convened from April 29 – May 2, 2019 in The Hague under the theme Realizing Justice for All. On the opening day, the Pathfinders Task Force on Justice launched their new report – Justice for All – which provides the first estimate of the global justice gap and makes the case for putting people at the center of justice…

“How are things on your end?”, Tom Weerachat asks. A simple question that now carries so much weight. We are smack in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most governments have their citizens in some sort of lockdown or have restricted their movements to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus. The situation has been challenging for…