Rule of Law News

"Continued focus and effort are essential for building on the progress made in implementing Afghanistan’s anti-corruption strategy, finds a new United Nations report released today.

'Fighting corruption remains a truly fundamental necessity in Afghanistan,' said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan. 'The United Nations welcomes the...

INPROL's popular Practitioner's Guide, 'Implementing Criminal Codes and Other Legislation in Postconflict and Developing Countries' is now available in Dari and Pashto as well as in the original English. It outlines practical steps that can be taken at any phase of implementing a new code - from drafting forward - to help make new laws take shape in practice. To access the Guide, click here....

"Amnesties have been vital to including armed combatants in peace negotiations and in emergent political and security institutions. They perform political settlement functions of elite inclusion, continuity and stability. However, international norms are now argued to preclude certain forms of amnesty. This project involves a compilation of all amnesties in situations of conflict, from 1990...

In June 2018, a coalition of global tech companies, civil society organizations, and international institutions jointly launched Tech Against Trafficking (TAT), a collaborative effort to support the eradication of human trafficking...The group has embarked on an ambitious project to understand and map the landscape of existing tech tools being used in the anti-trafficking sector....Following...