2 Feb, 2022 | News, Uncategorised
Terms of Reference RESEARCH PAPER ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LITIGATION STRATEGY FOR THE RESTITUTION AND REPATRIATION OF AFRICAN ARTWORKS About the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) The Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) is the premier continental membership forum of and...
26 Nov, 2021 | Articles, Civil law, Press Releases, Uncategorised
In a collective letter to the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of the United Nations, African citizens, human rights organizations and diaspora have called on the United Nations to urgently intervene in the escalating crisis in Ethiopia, of what they fear could lead...
27 Oct, 2021 | News, Press Releases
We stand in solidarity with the people of Sudan and we demand more resolute action from the African Union (AU), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the United Nations (UN) We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply...
27 Jul, 2021 | #PALUinCourt, News
The Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU), the continental body for lawyers and lawyers’ association, sought an Advisory Opinion at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights 3rd June 2020 to advise African states on how to properly carry out free and fair elections...
4 May, 2021 | #PALUinCourt
On 4 December 2020, the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights (the Court) rendered a landmark Advisory Opinion on the consonance of the Vagrancy Laws with the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter) and other relevant human rights...
22 Apr, 2021 | Articles, Press Releases
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...
21 Apr, 2021 | #PALUinCourt, PALU in the Press
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...
21 Apr, 2021 | News, Uncategorised
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...
24 Mar, 2021 | Articles, News
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...
