Project Updates
Media Law Training Program with MISA Zimbabwe
Participants that attended the Media Law Training Program in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. On February 25 - 26, 2020, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Zimbabwe chapter and ISLP conducted a participatory training session on media law and [...]
MLWG Hosts Webinar on Press Freedom
Last month, ten Palestinian human rights lawyers in Ramallah participated in a Skype webinar hosted by ISLP. They discussed relying on press freedom case law from the European Court of Human Rights in their domestic litigation defending bloggers and [...]
One Amicus Curiae Brief, Six Free Speech Acquittals
Do amicus curiae briefs work? Do they help influence the outcome of a case? The effectiveness of an expert amicus curiae brief was on display in a Palestinian criminal court on September 16. Six Palestinian bloggers on trial for [...]
Anatomy of a Show Trial
The Morocco Court of Appeal in April 2019 upheld the convictions and prison sentences of 43 defendants, including several journalists and alleged ringleaders of street protests in 2016-2017 in the Berber Rif region. As international observers, lawyers from International Senior Lawyers [...]
ISLP Attends Report Launch: “Exposing the Governance Conundrum in Kenya”
ISLP Legal Fellow, Emma De Koster, attended the report launch organized by the Kenya Human Rights Commission. The report, by Dr. Patrick O. Asingo (Political Scientist, Senior Lecture University Nairobi, analyzes the connection between deep state, mega-corruption and stalled [...]
ISLP Contributes to OECD Guiding Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts
ISLP’s Katerina Drisi (Program Director, Sustainable Development), Joseph Bell (ISLP Emeritus), and Boris Dolgonos (Jones Day, ISLP Board Co-chair) were involved in the multi-stakeholder consultation process to develop the OECD Guiding Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts that will provide [...]