IBAHRI Activities

The IBAHRI has a number of core projects that work towards our objectives. The core activities include capacity building with under resourced bar associations and law societies; high-level fact-finding missions to countries where there are signs of a deterioration of the rule of law; trial observations; and training for judges, lawyers and prosecutors. In addition, the IBAHRI undertakes a wide range of thematic programmes to further advance our objectives.

Abolition of the death penalty
 

Advice on proposed legislation
 

Capacity building
 

Fact-finding
 

Freedom of expression
 

IBA International Criminal Court Programme
 

International terrorism
 

Interventions
 

Poverty and human rights
 

Parliamentary strengthening
 

Sexual orientation and human rights
 

Training
 

Trial observations
 

The Rule of Law Directory

Top: A member of the Afghan Independent Bar Association (AIBA) voting at its 2011 General Assembly, supported by the IBAHRI. Centre: Capacity building programme at the Lubumbashi Bar Association in the DRC. Bottom: A high-level IBAHRI panel discussion on the rule of law in Myanmar (Burma) following an IBAHR Ifact-finding mission to the country.