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In the IBA's first webcast interview of 2012, African Development Bank General Counsel Kalidou Gadio (left) will discuss efforts to promote sustainable growth in the continent, and the critical links between law and development. Mr Gadio will also explain projects such as the African Legal Suport Facility, which addresses the problem of vulture funds.

Mr Gadio will be interviewed by international broadcast journalist Zeinab Badawi (right).

Lord Chancellor and UK Secretary of State for Justice Ken Clarke met with the IBA’s James Lewis in late 2011.

Discussion covered many topics, including cuts to legal aid and access to justice; conditional fee arrangements; private sector management of prisons and the response of the justice system to the summer riots.

On the first day of Egypt’s much anticipated parliamentary elections, the IBAHRI hosted a panel discussion in London to launch its latest fact-finding mission report on Egypt.

The expert panel considered the main findings of the IBAHRI report, and discussed what progress has been made to strengthen the rule of law since Egypt’s revolution.

IBAHRI urges new Egyptian parliament to reform freedom of association laws without delay
18 January 2012
 

 IBAHRI welcomes acquittal of Anwar Ibrahim and calls on Malaysia to decriminalise homosexual acts
12 January 2012
 

Instituto Innovare and IBA award prize to Brazil’s National Attorney General’s Office for role in combating organised crime in Brazil
15 December 2011