Project Updates
ISLP Mentioned in Initiative Recommendations for new U.S.- Africa Policy, “Prosper Africa”
ISLP was cited in the Center for Global Development’s (CGD) recent analysis on “Prosper Africa” as an organization capable providing technical support to African governments in various negotiation processes such as negotiating loans, public-private partnership agreements, production sharing agreements, [...]
ISLP Holds Conference on Financial and Economic Crimes Kenya
In February, ISLP, in collaboration with the Law Society of Kenya and The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, and with support of the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, hosted the Understanding Financial and Economic Crimes Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. The [...]
ISLP Organizes Training on Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects
Advocates and representatives of leading civil society organizations from Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru, gathered in Bogota, Colombia, on April 4th and 5th for a training on Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects: Life Cycle, Project Financing, and Advocacy Mechanisms for Civil Society. [...]
Training on Media Freedoms and Digital Rights in Zimbabwe
In April 2019, ISLP, in collaboration with the Media Institute of Southern Africa Zimbabwe (MISA) held a strategic litigation workshop dedicated to analyzing and discussing freedom of expression from an international, continental, and local law perspective, and how it is [...]
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 [...]