Legal Profession and World Organisations Committee(LPWOC)
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Mission Statement
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Overview
The aim of this working Committee is to oversee IBA contacts with the UN and other World Organisations, ensuring that the relevant Division and HRI Committees and Constituents are fully informed and their inputs co-ordinated.
LPWOC Mission Statement
The Legal Profession and World Organisations Committee (LPWOC) has the following mission:
1. To enhance the relations of the IBA with world organisations and to support the IBA in the pursuit in such fora of its goal to promote and protect the Rule of Law and to be the Global Voice of the Legal Profession.
2. To provide a forum for IBA members to obtain knowledge of the work of world organisations and to exchange views in pursuit of the stated objectives.
3. To encourage and coordinate efforts of the other Committees and Constituents of the LPD and the PPID in representing the IBA in interactions with world organisations.
4. To encourage and support the other Committees and Constituents of the LPD and the PPID in establishing and maintaining their own direct relations with world organisations.
5. To develop guidelines for other Committees and Constituents when representing the IBA in interactions with world organisations.
6. To ensure that dissemination of information arising in interactions with world organisations is made to relevant parts of the IBA.
7. To present and to encourage other Committees and Constituents to present to the IBA members in general programmes on issues of interest arising in the work of or interactions with world organisations.
25 April 2007
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Constituent Publications
Constituent members may click here to download the latest issue of the LPWOC Newsletter
Links
Click here to visit the United Nations website
Click here to visit the UNCITRAL website
Click here to visit the World Bank's website
Click here to visit Amnesty International's website
Click here to visit the Hague Conference on Private International Law website