Tag Archives: The Gambia

IHRDA Statement on World Press Freedom Day 2010

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA)
Statement On World Press Freedom Day 2010
The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) would like to thank the Gambia Press Union for organising this symposium to commemorate the World [...]

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Legal Aid Bill 2007 Review Workshop (September 2007)

Following the Roundtable discussion in October 2006, the Attorney-General’s Chambers drafted the Legal Aid Bill 2007. Its drafting was welcomed by the legal fraternity in The Gambia as a key step in the process of ensuring that access to justice [...]

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Workshop on Child Protection (2006)

6th to 8th December 2006. Banjul, The Gambia. Organised by SOS Kinderdorf International West/North Africa Regional Office and IHRDA.
This sensitisation workshop brought together a forum for 15 to 20 active members of International SOS Children’s Village working towards preventing, identifying [...]

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Roundtable Discussion on Legal Aid in The Gambia (26th October 2006)

Roundtable Discussion on Legal Aid in The Gambia [26th October 2006]
The meeting was organised to strategise on how to create a viable legal aid scheme for The Gambia and come up with an action plan for the [...]

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Strengthening Civil Society Ensuring Compliance with African and International Standards on Human Rights and Good Governance

Banjul, The Gambia. 26th to 28th June 2006
Open Society Institute’s Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP), Partnership Africa Canada (PAC), Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) and IHRDA organised a three day workshop prior to the July 2006 African Union [...]

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Seminar on Access to Justice as a Fundamental Right

Banjul (13-14 May 2005) The aim of this seminar was to tackle challenges impeding the right of access to justice in order to build strong local institutions. The stakeholders present at the seminar were judicial and law enforcement agents who have [...]

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The Gambia Legal Capacity Building Programme (LCBP)

In March 2004, The Judiciary of The Gambia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) for the funding of the three-year Phase I of the Gambia Legal Capacity Building Programme (LCBP) – 2004-2007.
IHRDA was [...]

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4th Workshop on Human Rights Litigation

The Gambia. 31st May to 4th June 2004. Organised by IHRDA
Topics covered
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5th Pan-African Workshop on Procedures of the African Regional Human Rights System

11th to 20th August 2003. The Gambia. Organised by IHRDA.
Topics covered
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