On November 26 2019, a powerful earthquake hit Albania taking 51 lives, leaving hundreds of others wounded and thousands more homeless. The damages caused by the earthquake are enormous, as it hit some of the most populated areas in the coastal city of Durrës as well...
By Lino Brosius Probation as an alternative sanction is gaining traction within the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. On Wednesday 27 November 2019, CILC, NHC and several Dutch legal practitioners took part in a donor coordination meeting on probation, hosted by the new...
On 12 December 2019, Judge Bruno Simma and the Drafting Team of The Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights will officially launch The Hague Rules at a symposium hosted by the PCA in the Peace Palace in The Hague. Judge Bruno Simma will hand over the first copies to...
Celebrating 50 years of Indonesia – Netherlands legal cooperation and looking back at the jubilee events Thank you! On 17 October 2019, familiar and new faces joined us at the Netherlands Supreme Court to celebrate 50 years of legal cooperation between...
On November 19, CILC hosted a group of junior German lawyers from the District Court of Aachen. Their visit to the Netherlands, which forms a crucial part of their judicial program, served the purpose of a student trip combing getting to know another country and fun....
“Everybody wants a change, but nobody wants to change”. With this message our change management trainer Renzo van Diepen kicked-off the Tunisia chapter of the Shiraka training. This message highlights why organizational change is difficult and why many...
In 2017, a number of EU/IPA funded projects and other initiatives for fighting cross-border organised crime in the Western Balkans started a round of informal coordination meetings. After successful meetings in Sarajevo, Budapest and Vienna, on November 15,...
By Lino Brosius Implications of the core values of justice for the day-to-day work and life of judges in Ukraine and the Netherlands “Core values don’t make the judiciary trustworthy. It is up to the judiciary to make these values trustworthy.” Understanding what...
Ukrainian, Latvian and Dutch experts came together in Kyiv last month to strengthen the probation system. In Ukraine, probation measures were introduced in the legal system in January 2017. These measures comprise of regular intensive contacts with (former) offenders...
What started in 2010 as a cooperative effort between Belgium, Germany, Romania and the Netherlands resulted in the establishment of the European Integrated Return Management Network (Eurint) in 2016. The aim of the Eurint network is to improve cooperation and exchange...
Placing the people’s perspective in the center ‘’It is always about the people.’’ With this strong message National Ombudsman of the Netherlands, Reinier van Zutphen, kicked-off a forum on 50 years of legal cooperation between Indonesia and the Netherlands. This event...
“To continue legal cooperation between Indonesia and the Netherlands in the years to come, we need to involve the youth of today”. This was the key message of the workshop held by CILC on the 16th of October. The workshop was organized as part of the...
“Let us imagine a society in which there is no legal certainty at all. A society in which decisions of government officials and judicial decisions are essentially unpredictable, are often contradictory to each other and also arbitrary. In such a situation, it is...
Why does good communication help build trust in the judiciary? How can you bring your core message across? What is the added value of ‘opening the doors’ of your court? These questions were central to a working visit to the Netherlands by a delegation from...
by Ward Berenschot Buli is a village of red and green. This coastal village in East Halmahera (North Maluku) is surrounded by dense forests, interspersed with red ‘cuts’: these are the places where mining companies have removed the top soil to mine the nickel...
