On Monday, 6 October, the Ambassador of the Republic of Albania to the Netherlands H.E. Ms. Adia Sakiqi-Vandecasteele, and the Netherlands Prosecutor-General, Member of the Board of Prosecutors-General, Ms. Annemarie Penn-te Strake, launched our Nuffic funded...
On 18 September CILC and our partner organisation, the Dutch Council for Refugees launched the new project Further strengthening asylum and migration management in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This initiative aims to increase access to a fair and efficient asylum procedure...
Since the establishment of CILC’s predecessor organisation – the Council for Legal Cooperation with Indonesia – in 1985, one of our primary target countries has been the Republic of Indonesia. During the last couple of years, CILC has contributed to Indonesia’s legal...
On 7 July CILC and NHC organise a working meeting for Montenegrin judges and prosecutors on the criminal justice chain and the use of probation information in criminal proceedings. This one-day event will take place at the Judicial Training Centre in Podgorica. The...
The cooperation between CILC and our German sister organisation IRZ spans almost two decades and has gained new momentum since 2013. CILC and IRZ are partners in an increasing number of projects and our work together has made it clear that we not only share the same...
Between 10 and 13 June a high-level delegation from China will visit the Netherlands to learn about the Dutch system of legal aid. Mr. Sang Ning, Deputy Director General of the National Legal Aid Center (NLAC) within the Chinese Ministry of Justice leads the group of...
At CILC we are always ready and pleased to share our experience and explore new grounds for cooperation with interested organisations and experts. On 28 May Ms. Ellen Lee, staff attorney of the Taiwan Legal Aid Foundation, visited the CILC office in The Hague...
CILC and the Academy for Legislation conducted the third round of the training on legislation within the framework of the Matra South Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands. CILC and the Academy for Legislation implement this program under the...
On 30 April, the Matra CoPROL Leadership Programme for Security and Rule of Law was, after Ankara and Belgrade, now also launched in Tirana. This programme supports government reforms in Turkey, Serbia and Albania and works towards aligning public management practices...
Announcement of the Closing Conference of the EU funded project “Fight against Organised Crime and Corruption: Strengthening the Prosecutors’ Network” in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 14-15 April 2014 On 14-15 April 2014, the General Prosecutors from Albania, Bosnia...
In the framework of the IPA2010 project “Fight against organised crime and corruption: strengthening the Western Balkans Prosecutors’ Network”, CILC organised a study visit for 14 prosecutors and policemen from the 7 beneficiary countries (Albania, Bosnia, Croatia,...
Strengthening rule of law requires coherence, continuity, stability, time to grow and the most kind of special attention to local realities in order to yield the desired outcomes. True to this belief, CILC always aims to connect new projects to existing achievements ...
In the period 3 – 7 March 2014, Mr. Frans Clobus (Dutch Probation Service, International Office) conducted a startup mission to Podgorica for the probation component of the project “Support to the probation service and the system of alternative sanctions...
In order to fulfil our mission to contribute to strengthening rule of law worldwide, we set and live up to high quality standards for the acquisition and management of our projects. Our commitment to successful international legal cooperation plays a major role in the...
Servaas Feiertag (CILC) and Jan de Vries (NHC) have completed in February a second mission to Mali, in the context of the Studies of Criminal Justice in Mali and Development of Special Mechanisms to Support the Criminal Chain project. The project was commissioned by...
