Last Monday, November 4th, CILC’s Director Willem van Nieuwkerk kicked off the the training on legislation for twenty legislative lawyers and other officials, working at the Legal Bureau and various other departments of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of...
Willem van Nieuwkerk Director at Center for International Legal Cooperation At the invitation of the Malian Ministry of Justice, CILC and the NHC (Netherlands Helsinki Committee) visited Mali for the duration of two weeks as part of the first stage of a study on the...
Jan A.B. Janus Independent legal adviser Last week (18-20 September), the second round of the Matra South Training Programme on Legislation was successfully completed with a three-day training course in Rabat. Moroccan experts gave very interesting introductions on...
On 25 September 2013, Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Turkey, attended the opening ceremony of the project “Improved Relations Between Mass Media and Judiciary”. More information is available in the transcript of...
From 27-30 May a delegation of Russian legal aid experts visited the Netherlands to acquaint themselves with the Dutch legal aid system – one of the most developed legal aid systems in Europe – and to discuss the overall organization, the quality and effectiveness of...
CILC organized, in close cooperation with the Attorney General Office, a first ever conference for the administrative staff of the Palestinian public prosecution. The conference “Promoting the Role of Administrative Staff at the Public Prosecution” was held in...
On Friday 29 March CILC organized and moderated the closing conference of the Matra Project Macedonia Jurisprudence in Skopje. Backgrounds, main outputs and results of the project were highlighted by high-level representatives of the Croatian Ministry of Justice, the...
On Wednesday, 24th April 2013, the closing conference of the EU-funded Twinning Project “Better Enforcement System Through Twinning (BESTT)” was held in Tbilisi. The duration of the project that started in September 2011 was 20 months. Deputy Minister of...
Two PhD candidates of the Nuffic funded project ‘Strengthening the Law Faculties of the Kigali Independent University (ULK) and the National University of Rwanda (NUR)’ graduated at Utrecht University. Recently on 15 April 2013 , Felix Zigirinshuti, who is a lecturer...
On Friday 22 March CILC organized the closing conference of the IPA Twinning Light Project Strengthening Administrative Capacities of the Croatian Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia at the Information Centre of the European Union in Zagreb. At this...
The level of organized crime and corruption in the Western Balkans is a serious obstacle on the path towards EU integration. In order to increase capacities to fight these phenomena a conference took place in Zagreb on 6 and 7 March with the aim of improving links...
On Tuesday 22 January CILC took part in a roundtable in Samara that was organized by its Russian project partner PILnet. This roundtable hosted by the Samara Bar Chamber brought together representatives of various regional institutions that work on legal aid, such as...
From Monday 17 till Thursday 20 December CILC organized a study visit for a delegation of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia. The goal of this practical three-day visit was to provide insight in the Human Resource Management (HRM) system of the Dutch...
Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 November CILC organized a working meeting in Moscow on legal aid delivery in the Netherlands. Russian legal aid experts were briefed by CILC experts Herman Schilperoort and Edwin Borghs – Executive Secretary and Staff Executive of the Dutch...
