LAUNCH OF THE “JUSTICE IN WEST AFRICA” WEBSITE

Elise Carreau Judicial Capacity Building, News and Events

The Wayamo Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Rule of Law Programme for Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa launched the “Justice in West Africa” website, a bilingual online resource platform of accountability efforts for international crimes.

Myanmar Training on Professionalising Police and Media Relations

kotarski Journalism Training, Judicial Capacity Building

  Following a request by the Myanmar Government, President Thein Sein, which was supported by the chair of the rule of law committee of the Parliament, Aung San Suu Kyi, the European Union decided to support the reform of the Myanmar Police Force (MPF) in the areas of crowd management and community policing.  The EU trained 4,000 police officers in …

Myanmar Training on Professional Court and Police Reporting

kotarski Journalism Training, Judicial Capacity Building

The project sought to establish professional liaison mechanisms between the police, media and civil society, including training police in press work. This included training on how to hold regular press conferences, how to nominate spokespersons and how to write press releases. The next step was now to create a professional press and public information service. On the side of the …