For most of our respective organisations’ histories, CILC and IRZ have been working together in projects throughout Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. The past year saw increased cooperation in a number of successful bids for EU funded projects. At present...
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments It has been six months since CILC and the Jakarta Centre Law Enforcement Cooperation (JCLEC) have started their partnership to jointly develop a curriculum on combatting transnational crime. The first series of...
It is not certain yet whether the next recruitment will involve 450, 500, or 750 judge candidates, since the statements of the Indonesian officials vary. It is also not certain yet whether the Judicial Commission will be involved, and how the judicial selection will...
A delegation of judges from Moldova visited The Netherlands between 10 – 14 May. This is the first of two study weeks planned in 2015 in the context of Netherlands support to strengthening the Moldovan justice sector. Cooperation between Dutch and Moldovan legal...
A delegation of asylum and migration experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina visited The Netherlands between 13 – 17 April, marking the first ever study visit that combines all relevant migration authorities and a prominent asylum & migration NGO in one visiting...
The European Union is pursuing a so-called ‘integrated approach’ to combat organised crime and corruption in the Western Balkans. As part of this approach, various projects focusing on the different aspects of the criminal justice chain are setting up coordination...
A delegation from the Mahkamah Agung (the Indonesian Supreme Court) visited The Hague between 13-17 April, marking the second Mahkamah Agung working visit to the Hoge Raad in the framework of the JSSP project. The cooperation between these two supreme courts revolves...
The first part of 2015 marks at least two round-numbered anniversaries at CILC: the organisation concludes its third decade of existence at the beginning of May, but not before deputy director Eric Vincken has proudly checked the “twenty years of dedicated service in...
2015 brings a number of interesting new international legal cooperation opportunities for CILC, including projects in countries where we have not worked in before / in recent years. Supporting the development of the legal aid system in Azerbaijan Within the...
On 1 May 2015 CILC will celebrate 30 years since its formal establishment as the Netherlands Council for Cooperation with Indonesia in Legal Matters (1985). It was renamed, in light of its broadened scope of activities, the “Center for International Legal...
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015, an excellent expert and dear friend of CILC, Mr. Bernard Menut, First Vice-President of the International Union of Judicial Officers (UIHJ), passed away. Bernard was too young to leave this world. His mission in creating just...
The first expert mission of the Judicial Sector Support Program (JSSP) to Indonesia has taken place between 12-23 January 2015, involving support to strengthening the chamber system at the Indonesian Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung) and support to the improvement of the...
In January 2015 CILC conducted in partnership with Human Dynamics and the Palestinian Civil Police (PCP) a three-week training of trainers at the PCP’s outstanding Jericho Training Facility. The course is one component of the EU funded project aimed at providing...
