Project Updates
Confronting Repression in the Middle East and North Africa
In March of 2019, our volunteers served as trial observers in controversial, politicized criminal trials in Casablanca and Istanbul. In each case autocratic regimes punished freedom of expression and freedom of association, and denied defendants the right to a [...]
ISLP Organizes Workshop with Justice Base
Earlier this week, ISLP volunteer lawyer, David Bulbulia, and ISLP's Myanmar in-country consultant, Laura Draper, delivered a workshop to lawyers at Justice Base, an NGO working on rule of law in Myanmar. The two-day training consisted of an introduction to legal research [...]
Roundtable Discussion with ZELA: Taking a look at PPPs and Mineral Concessions in Zimbabwe
Stakeholders came together for a two-day roundtable discussion (March 14 - 15, 2019) regarding policy and legal issues relating to transparency and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the mining sector in Zimbabwe. The theme of the roundtable, organized by the [...]
Training on Forensic Investigations, Anti-money Laundering and Asset Recovery in Kenya
Yesterday marked the beginning of ISLP's training with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to strengthen the investigation and prosecution of financial and economic crimes in Kenya (February 11 - 13, 2019). The session was officially opened by the Canadian High Commissioner [...]
Conference on Financial and Economic Crime
ISLP, in collaboration with the Law Society of Kenya and the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives organized the Understanding Financial and Economic Crimes Conference, which was held February 14 -15, 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya. Financial and economic crime has been [...]
Working with Human Rights First to Collaborate on Cases for Potential Sanction Under Global Magnitsky Act
In January 2019, the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP) and Human Rights First (HRF) formalized an agreement in which both parties will coordinate the submission of cases for potential sanction by the US government under the Global Magnitsky Act. [...]