Members of the ‘Strengthening Enforcement in the Western Balkan Countries’ project team met with the North Macedonian Minister of Justice Igor Filkov and representatives of the country’s Ministry of Justice on 22 October 2024.
Uniting 61 nationalities over 2 days, the 6th World Probation Congress, a global event of significance, was held from the 16th to the 18th of April in The Hague.
Ljupcho Kocevski, Public Prosecutor of North Macedonia, met with EU4FAST project representatives, led by Erik Vincken, Deputy Director of CILC, to discuss combating smuggling and human trafficking in the Western Balkans.
The ‘Countering Serious Crime in the Western Balkans - IPA2019’ project, ending on 31 Dec 2023, aims to strengthen ties between Western Balkan prosecution offices, law enforcement, and European agencies.
On Friday 21 April, the Minister of Justice of Montenegro, Mr. Marko Kovač, signed the Judgments Convention during a festive ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands in The Hague.
That was the title of a 3-day workshop for 25 Slovenian prosecutors and organized by CILC. The Slovenian prosecution wants to adopt a more pro-active communication approach.
On 28 October 2021, the Mayor of The Hague received the first delegation that visited the Netherlands in the framework of a CILC project since the start of the pandemic.
Reforms of the justice system in the Republic of Albania were described as “revolutionary” and “courageous” by Dutch experts participating in a roundtable discussion in The Hague.
On 17 October 2019, familiar and new faces joined us at the Netherlands Supreme Court to celebrate 50 years of legal cooperation between Indonesia and the Netherlands.
In June 2019, CILC director Willem van Nieuwkerk visited Pristina to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with KPC Head Bahri Hyseni and Dutch Ambassador Gerrie Willems.
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”.
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.
On Thursday 3 May 2018, CILC had the honor of welcoming the Mayor of The Hague Pauline Krikke. The Mayor wanted to learn more about how CILC is promoting The Hague as the International City of Peace and Justice.
From 10-14 September, five judges from Amman's Central Economic Chamber visited the Netherlands to exchange knowledge on judicial systems, specialized chambers, and international arbitration.
Since the IPA2010 project ‘Fighting organized crime and corruption‘, CILC and GIZ have been supporting the authorities on Montenegro to establish closer cooperation with Eurojust.
Phase I of the project Peer 2 Peer 4 Justice Ukraine started. CILC and its Ukrainian partner organisation Centre for Judicial Studies implement this initiative that aims at strengthening the rule of law in the Lviv region.
CILC organised a seminar to discuss challenges and opportunities related to measuring the impact of rule of law initiatives on the 6th and 7th of October 2016 in The Hague.
On Monday 21 March 2016 the Minister of Justice of Ukraine paid a visit to CILC to discuss opportunities for assisting in Ukraine’s judicial reform process.
Over the years CILC has had its ups and downs, and it has endured. Today it shows the spirit and energy of a thirty year old global citizen at the beginning of a promising international career.
From 10-14 September, five Jordanian judges from Amman's Central Economic Chamber visited the Netherlands to exchange insights on judicial systems, specialized chambers, and (international) arbitration.
On Monday 17 November CILC participated in a visibility event to launch the increase of the EU technical assistance to the justice sector reform in Moldova.
On Wednesday 8 October, CILC and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee presented the results so far of the project on probation and alternative sanctions we are jointly implementing in Montenegro.
Between 31 October and 4 November 2011, a high-ranking Indonesian delegation, headed by the president of the Indonesian Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung) Dr. Harifin Tumpa visited the Netherlands.