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About the acijlp |
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Activities : |
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- To convene a scientific regional conference that deals with the status of justice in the Arab region periodically and more often if necessary. Following this, a presentation of its recommendations as regards to solving the problems faced by the judiciary in the Arab states to concerned bodies and ministries in said states. - To convene scientific and intellectual seminars and develop studies that are concerned with and have an impact on the legal and legislative status in the Arab region. - To assist researchers on studies relating to justice and freedoms. - To cooperate with legal institutions and law colleges in Arab states in order to convene conferences and seminars for law professors to examine the means of advancing legal education. - To hold training courses for lawyers and activists in the Arab states on human rights and the use of international instruments before national courts. - To train lawyers on the principles of fair and impartial trials. - To provide Arab lawyers and judges with ACIJLP’s publications and various training methods. - To offer support and assistance for Arab lawyers and judges whose rights are being violated for reasons of / or during practicing their work. - To submit complaints and inquiries regarding the exposure of violations of the independence of judiciary and legal profession to authorities in concerned countries. - To monitor investigations and trials that judges and lawyers are subjected to. - To monitor exceptional trials and to ensure the maintenance of standards of fair justice. - To publish an annual report on justice that states the regulative and legislative developments within the field of justice in the Arab regions as well as violations that the independence of judiciary and legal profession are subjected to. In addition it states professionals’ recommendations to eliminate these violations whether related to legislation or Practice. - To support or conduct technical, legal and media campaigns regarding the violations of human rights generally, or of those who work in the field of justice in any country in the world. - To publish reports or studies on general violations of human rights in any country in the world. - To convene conferences, seminars and training courses and to issue publications in order to raise governmental and non-governmental awareness of the significance of the International Criminal Court as one of the most important and modern mechanisms to establish criminal justice broadly and also as a crucial mechanism to defend human rights. - To hold educative seminars on new international covenants regarding justice in general and criminal justice specifically. - To attend investigations or trials of judges or lawyers. - To defend the accused in cases relating to rights and public freedoms. - To present technical support to defenders of human rights cases and to train lawyers on the administration of these cases. - To offer advice and technical support to governments and international institutions concerned with draft laws relating to the statuses of justice, rights and freedoms. - To form specialized advisory committees of experts and specialists who work in ACIJLP or who are recommended by ACIJLP. - To establish an information center and Arab legal library which includes the legislations of Arab regions and judicial provision principles issued by courts of cessation and Arab high courts.
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