In early July 2019, CILC welcomed a delegation from the Libyan High Judicial Institute (HJI) to be part of a ‘train the trainers’ program. The 13 participants – a mix of judges and prosecutors currently teaching at the HJI – received interactive lectures and sessions...
Six lawyers from the Center for Legal Research and Analysis from North Macedonia visited the Netherlands in June. The programme included training sessions, group work on the Center’s advocacy projects and visits to various Dutch institutions. With the support from...
On 24 July 2019, the Third Stakeholders meeting of the EURALIUS (Consolidation of the Justice System in Albania) V project took place in Tirana. At the stakeholders meeting, representatives of all key Albanian institutions of the justice sector discussed the progress...
On Monday 8 July CILC hosted the Young Diplomat Summer School for an introduction to their organisation and a discussion on the work they do. This session was part of a program on democracy and diplomacy, where students discover what the pro’s and con’s are of a...
CILC is proud to implement during the coming four years two Shiraka training courses: one on Administration of Justice and the other on Legislation. CILC has been implementing the Shiraka course on Legislation since 2012, however this year we were given the...
On Thursday 27 June 2019, three students of the law faculty of the M. Auezov South Kazakhstan State University visited CILC to discuss probation measures in criminal justice and rehabilitation efforts in Dutch penitentiary institutions. Their visit, organised by Penal...
On Tuesday 25th June, CILC was invited by the Department of European and International Affairs of the Ministry of Justice and Security to partake in an expert meeting on capacity building in the area of rule of law. Dutch judicial institutions, the Ministry of Foreign...
Earlier this June saw the closing of the EuroMed Justice (EMJ) IV project with its final conference in Madrid. Funded by the European Union, EuroMed Justice contributed to the development of a Euro-Mediterranean area of effective, efficient and democratic justice...
After travelling to Pristina in late June 2019, CILC director Willem van Nieuwkerk met with Head of the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council (KPC), Bahri Hyseni as well as Gerrie Willems, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Kosovo, to sign a Memorandum of...
To all followers of the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration project: Below you will find the link to the complete draft text of the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration. The publication of the draft text of the Hague Rules on...
This year a prominent working session of the World Justice Forum held in May 2019 in The Hague was entitled “The Hague Rules: Improving International Dispute Resolution in the Field of Business and Human Rights”. Coordinated by CILC, the event explored the utility of...
In October 2014, CILC was granted a NUFFIC project aimed at supporting the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement (JCLEC) – in collaboration with Pusdik Reskrim and Pusdik Intel – to have the organisational and academic capacity to deliver well trained police officers...
In December 2018, CILC was granted a new Nuffic project under the Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) to train staff of the Directorate of Community Service (DCS) in Uganda. This refresher course follows up a tailor-made training delivered in 2016 to the same...
The Leaders for Justice community has recently launched the series of interviews “THE PEOPLE OF JUSTICE. In dialogue with Liana Alexandru”. In this series, which can be watched on the community’s YouTube channel with English subtitles, thirteen...
On Thursday 11 April 2019, a group of students and mentors of the Ukrainian Leadership Academy visited CILC to talk about the future of Ukraine in Europe. This year, the ULA Leadership Expedition to the EU included working visits to Poland, Belgium and the...