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August/September 2007 |
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 Rob Boone joined the ABA Rule of Law Initiative as its first Director on August 1, 2007. As the first Director for the Rule of Law Initiative, Mr. Boone will oversee the Association’s recently consolidated rule of law programs in Africa, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa. Read more » |
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Rule of Law Initiative Conducts U.S.–China Environmental Exchange From the moment they stepped off the plane on June 17, 2007, in Washington, DC, Chinese environmental officials and advocates marveled at the clear air and blue skies overhead. “I knew that the U.S. had good environmental protection, but I didn’t realize just how far China still has to go,” said Xi’an Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) official John Qi. The core of the exchange program consisted of month-long periods of residency during June and July 2007 in American environmental agencies and NGOs. Read more » |
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ABA ROLI Leads Effort to Combat Human Trafficking in Nigeria Twenty judges and nine state prosecutors gathered in the Nigerian cities of Ijebu-ode and Calabar in May and July 2007, where staff from ABA ROLI and partner organizations led workshops on the extent of trafficking in persons in the region and the effective management of cases from arrest and prosecution to rehabilitation. Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and a source and destination for trafficking, has developed a national action plan against trafficking which awaits presidential approval. Read more » |
Programs in Morocco and Algeria Receive Awards for Capacity Building and Training
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Initiative Shares “Lessons Learned” on Domestic Violence and Gender in China
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Georgia “Street Law” Program Celebrates International Children’s Day O |
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September 14: Panel on Armenian Elections Join us for Armenian Elections: Past, Present and Future, a panel discussion with ABA ROLI and IFES. |
Armenia Holds Second Bar Exam with ABA ROLI Support Armenia, with technical and financial support from the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, conducted its second annual bar examination on August 25, 2007. ABA ROLI support included the organizing of monitors for the exam and the underwriting for the computer program at the exam. It was Armenia’s first anonymously scored bar exam, with each applicant being identified using a bar code. Read more » |
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Carson Clements The Legal Analyst for ROLI's Office of Research & Program Development is off to Ukraine on a Fulbright Scholars grant. Read more » |
Spotlight on Dina Mocan The Moldova Legal Assistant earned a certificate in Women’s Human Rights from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. |
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ABA ROLI Sponsors Regional Networking for Iraqi Lawyers and Judges With support from the British Foreign Commonwealth Office, ABA ROLI held a conference to give judges and lawyers from Basra, Iraq, an opportunity to network with their colleagues in other countries. The conference brought together forty judges and lawyers from Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Bahrain, and topics of discussion included the rule of law and conflict, judicial ethics and independence in conflict situations, and the protection of children in conflict. Read more » |
Initiative Participates in Country's First Comprehensive Mock Trials Thirty trials with sixty advocates and prosecutors and fifteen judges were held with patrol officers and law students serving as witnesses, thanks to the efforts of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative and the U.S. Department of Justice Resident Legal Advisor Roger Keller. In some previous court trainings prosecutors and advocates argued cases against each other, but this was the first time that Georgian judges presided over these mock trials. Read more » |
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Initiative Trains Bahraini Judges, Prosecutors on Freedom of Information
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The Legal and Judicial Development Awards, funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) as of May 31, 2007, will create more accountable, effective, and independent judicial systems in the two countries, building on the work of ABA ROLI in the region. 
ABA Consultant and Trainer Mitchell Pearlman led Freedom of Information workshops for Bahraini judges and prosecutors and met with senior officials of the Bahraini Ministry of Justice to discuss Bahrain's possible adoption of access to government information legislation. |
Questions? Contact Outreach Director Andy Pino |
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