6 Nov, 2024 | Communiques, Declarations
31 May 2024 – The Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU), in collaboration with its partners, issued a joint advocacy statement regarding the attempted repeal of The Gambia’s legislation prohibiting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the country. The progression of...
6 Nov, 2024 | Communiques, Declarations
16 May 2024 – The Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU), with the support of the American Bar Association (ABA), drafted and delivered a statement at the 79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission). Done within the...
10 Dec, 2016 | Declarations, News, Press Releases
The documented history of the legal profession in Africa is that, previously, from the 1970s, there were a number of continental-level lawyers’ associations, which were divided along linguistic lines. They were of course weak, due to the small number of lawyers then,...
23 Apr, 2016 | Declarations, Press Releases
L’Union panafricaine des avocats (PALU/UPA), l’organisme continental par excellence des avocats en Afrique, condamne dans les termes les plus fermes les récentes attaques xénophobes contre les étrangers, pour la plupart d’autres Africains, qui ont...
23 Apr, 2015 | Declarations, News
The Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU), the pre-eminent continental body of lawyers in Africa, condemns in the strongest terms the recent xenophobic attacks against foreigners, mostly other Africans, which have been carried out by a small section of South African...
12 Feb, 2011 | Declarations
WE the Bar Leaders and Representatives from over forty National and Regional, Bar Associations and Law Societies, sitting as the Council of The Pan African Lawyers.’ Union (PALU) during its meeting held on 12th February 2010, in Kigali, Rwanda, discussed .“Rule of Law...
