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A five-year effort taking place in Michigan, New Jersey and North Carolina, and sponsored by the Vera Institute of Justice with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates, Ford, Kellogg, Open Society and Sunshine Lady foundations, is providing prisoners the opportunity to study college or vocational coursework two years before and after their release. The hope, said Fred Patrick of the Vera Institute, is that the Pathways Project, as it is called, “will ‘move the needle’ on public investment for prisoner education.” This effort builds on the foundation’s Higher Education for Social Justice work to foster policy and institutional reforms that improve disadvantaged people’s access to and success in high-quality higher education. Learn more.
The WJP Rule of Law Index is an assessment tool from the World Justice Project that offers a comprehensive picture of adherence to the rule of law. It uses polls of experts and the general populations of countries to assess issues of government accountability, fundamental rights, openness of government, and access to justice. TheIndex 2012-2013 report is the result of interviewing 97,000 members of the general public and more than 2,500 experts. To learn more about the data collection from the Index Data Spotlight series, see the methodology page. Make sure to stay tuned for their new interactive charts and graphs each week!
IPI will be streaming a Women, Peace & Security Series event on Thursday, May 16th, at 6:30pm EST, entitled, "Gender and Peacekeeping: Perspectives from the Field." The panel discussion will focus on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in peacekeeping activities, and the issues relating to the prevention of and response to sexual and gender based violence that poses a risk to peace and security. Check it out!
The latest publication in the Justice & Development Working Paper Series, "The Drug Treatment Court Concept: the Jamaican Drug Courts" by Stephane Jackson-Haisley, is now uploaded on the World Bank's Justice for the Poor webpage (http://www.worldbank.org/justiceforthepoor) and the INPROL Digital Library (http://inprol.org/resource/the-drug-treatment-court-concept-the-jamaican-drug-courts).
Argentina, Colombia and Mexico: Judicial Control of Public Policies and Budget Allocations. Watch the video about these three countries’ experiences: Judicial control of budget allocations and public policies is one of the most promising tools to advance and enforce social, economic, cultural and environmental rights.
On March 18, Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda surrendered himself unexpectedly to the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda asking for transfer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, where he was wanted for allegedly committing crimes against humanity. The apprehension of ICC indictees was one of the main challenges raised during the Program on Human Right's (PHR) Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series last quarter. Ntaganda’s voluntary surrender provoked reflection on the lessons learned from the seminar’s evaluation of the ICC’s impact on international justice as it marked its first decade and exploration of its mandate moving forward. Read the rest of Jessie Brunner’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law blog post:
The 31st annual Cambridge Symposium on Economic Crime will take place at Jesus College within the University of Cambridge from 1 to 8 September 2013.
On 10 and 11 July, IACA will offer a “Best of” seminar featuring Dr. Robert Klitgaard, one of the world’s leading experts in the fi eld of anti-corruption. The Claremont Graduate University professor will discuss the efficacy of anti-corruption efforts by examining interactive case studies and explaining innovative methods of good governance and institutional reform. For two days, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the most pioneering measures being used by various entities to launch and sustain preventive and curative measures against corruption. Together with Dr. Robert Klitgaard, they will engage in sustainable policy building for targeting anti-corruption in various spheres, and learn about many innovative techniques being used to fight corruption. In the evening, all participants are invited to a networking dinner with Professor Robert Klitgaard at a typical Viennese restaurant. Read more on the International Anti-Corruption Academy website.