IBJ is pleased to announce that a legal defense training and judicial community roundtable discussion will be conducted in early July 2010 in Kigali with the support of the Kigali Bar Association. On July...
On November 27th and 28th, IBJ Burundi Fellow – Astère Muyango – and IBJ Rwanda Fellow – John Bosco Bugingo – attended the 14th East Africa Law Society (EALS) Annual General Meeting in Kigali....
Under the leadership of IBJ Rwanda fellow, John Bosco Bugingo, IBJ has conducted last Sunday 22nd November its third radio rights awareness program on Contact FM. The President of the Kigali Bar Association, Me...
It is widely agreed that most Rwandan citizens are not aware of their legal rights and responsibilities. This is especially true for individuals in rural communities. Because radio is the lifeblood of many rural...
After the genocide of 1994, approximately fifty lawyers were practicing law in Rwanda. The legal system was devastated. Today, 80% of people accused of crimes in Rwanda do not have access to a lawyer....
IBJ has just completed an enormously successful criminal defense training in Kigali, Rwanda. Led by a dynamic tandem of two defense attorneys, Mehdi Benbouzid and Anita Mugeni, this training will long remain as a...
The morning began with a session of qigong, hosted by Heim Center curator Eduardo Von Fellenberg, to focus and direct the fellows on the last day of the Summit. Much of the day was intended to aid the...
The idea of gathering IBJ Fellows, the backbone of the organization’s programs, had been forming for quite some time…it is now reality! From June 8th until June 11th, Abhijit Datta (Fellow from West Bengal,...
In May 2008, IBJ joined forces with the Ministry of Justice, the Bar Association of Kigali and the Belgian Technical Cooperation to launch its first Legal Rights Awareness Campaign in Kigali, Rwanda where IBJ...
After Marlon vigorously searched through IBJ’s resumes, we found a French criminal defender who was interested in IBJ’s work. We called him and within a week we were meeting our trainer. Mehdi Benbouzid, a...
