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Project description
The study is comprised of an assessment of the capacity of staff in the criminal justice system on the one hand and an assessment of the conditions of support for the prosecution authority, particularly for those actors in the criminal justice chain that seek to investigate and bring to justice perpetrators of crimes committed during the recent conflict, on the other. It will ultimately result in a Plan of Action to be adopted by the Malian Ministry of Justice. The study is carried out in partnership by CILC and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) and this assignment forms therefore also another important step in strengthening the cooperation between these two The Hague based organisations.
The first mission took place in September 2013. During this first mission, our expert team became aware of concurrent interventions in Mali financed by the Dutch government or initiated by The Hague based organisations. Late 2013, in consultation with the Netherlands Ministry of Justice, CILC organised an informal roundtable with these stakeholders to open more regular communication lines and to support complementarity among the various initiatives. By 2014 this has been integrated into the Dutch Rule of Law Knowledge Platform.
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Project team
Marja Lenssen
Project Manager
Ingrid de Haer-Douma
Project Officer
Servaas Feiertag
Expert
Jan de Vries
Expert
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