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 Press Freedom Day 2010 under the theme “Freedom of information, the right to […]
Tag Archives | The Gambia
Atelier de formation sur le contentieux des droits économiques sociaux et culturels et d’identification des cas en RDC
Posted in Economic and Social Rights
13th to 15th October 2008. Banjul, The Gambia. workshop report___.fr
Legal Aid Bill 2007 Review Workshop (September 2007)
Posted in Gambia Legal Capacity Building, Latest News
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 is realised as a fundamental human right. To ensure that the Bill met the peculiar […]
Workshop on Child Protection (2006)
Posted in Children’s Rights
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 and reporting on child abuse, and towards children’s development. Participation of children themselves would […]
Roundtable Discussion on Legal Aid in The Gambia (26th October 2006)
Posted in Gambia Legal Capacity Building
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 same. It was first conceived during the May 2005 workshop on access to justice as a fundamental […]
Strengthening Civil Society Ensuring Compliance with African and International Standards on Human Rights and Good Governance
Posted in African HR procedures
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 Summit in Banjul, The Gambia, to provide an opportunity for African stakeholders involved in […]
Seminar on Access to Justice as a Fundamental Right
Posted in Gambia Legal Capacity Building
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 the duty to guarantee respect for human rights in the execution of their duties under […]
The Gambia Legal Capacity Building Programme (LCBP)
Posted in Gambia Legal Capacity Building
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 contracted by DFID to manage the LCBP programme, as well as coordinate the various […]
4th Workshop on Human Rights Litigation
Posted in African HR procedures
The Gambia. 31st May to 4th June 2004. Organised by IHRDA Topics covered workshop report ___.eng
5th Pan-African Workshop on Procedures of the African Regional Human Rights System
Posted in African HR procedures
11th to 20th August 2003. The Gambia. Organised by IHRDA. Topics covered workshop report ___.eng
