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Towards a People’s Recovery – Tracking COVID Bailout Stimulus received by Developing Countries
Governments of nine countries in the Global South studied in this report have, on average, provided stimulus measures across the board equivalent to only 3.9 percent of their GDPs, with funds directed toward social protections totalling approximately 1 percent of...
PALU and Partners file Uganda election petition filed at EACJ
Six citizens from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania together with PALU have filed a petition at the East African Court of Justice challenging the conduct of the January 2021 presidential election in Uganda. The petition filed earlier this month, also asks the court to end...
PALU Virtual Conference – COVID-19 and After: Agenda for the Legal Profession in Africa
The Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) hosted its first virtual conference for the year 2021 a three-day, six-session event from January 27- 29. With COVID-19 as its theme, the conference addressed different aspects of the pandemic’s impacts on the legal profession in...
PALU participates in plenary session to track progress, assess challenges and opportunities in the fight against Illegal Financial Flows (IFFs) from Africa
March 10th 2021; Trust Africa and the Thompson Reuters Foundation organized a two-day webinar to engage the Media & Civil Society on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) from Africa and especially in the COVID19 Era. The Webinar themed “Strengthening Collaboration Between...
Reimagining Africa’s Judiciaries and the Legal Profession in the Context of Democratic Recession
On 26 February 2021, the Coalition for an Effective African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court Coalition) and the Pan-African Lawyers Union (PALU), hosted a convening on the theme: Reimagining Africa’s Judiciaries and the Legal Profession in the Context...
Press Release 04.12.2020
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EACJ dismisses the appeal by the Attorney General of Burundi
East African Court Of Justice dismisses the appeal by the Attorney General of Burundi that challenged the election of the 4th EALA Speaker, with costs to the Secretary General of the EAC (Respondent) And Hon. Fred Mukasa Mbidde (Intervener). 4 June 2020, Arusha,...
PALU files a Request for an Advisory Opinion
The #PanAfricanLawyersUnion (PALU) has today Tuesday 02 June 2020, filed a Request for an Advisory Opinion before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ on the guarantees for the effective protection of the right to participate in Government in...