ILP’s global network helps NGOs and investigative journalists whose work follows this multi-jurisdictional path. Alongside ILP’s traditional role organising representation, advice and trial monitoring for journalists uncovering corruption who have been subject to unlawful arrest, imprisonment, and harassment, ILP supports civil society and investigative media consortiums hoping to exploit new data from large corruption leaks […]
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
ISLP provides top-tier pro bono legal services to governments, civil society actors, and social enterprises, focusing on accountability and transparency/anti-bribery and anti-corruption, and other areas.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
The Vance Center provides legal representation to civil society organizations, as well as international human rights bodies, around the world, in partnership with leading law firms on a pro bono basis. It builds the capacity of the legal profession in pro bono practice ethics, and diversity by engaging law firms, bar associations, law schools, and […]
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
Thomson Reuters Foundation Trust Law is a global pro-bono clearinghouse that connect CSOs with a global network of lawyers that can provide free legal assistance.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
PILnet brings together lawyers and advocates worldwide to use the law to protect civil society and the communities it serves. It provides organizations with high-quality free legal assistance and resources, and connects lawyers and civil society organizations.
Content type: Resource Bank
Data type: Useful organisations,
Legal Topic: Corruption,
A bill New Mexico Democrats pushed as allowing for greater state control of environmental regulations was signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham following the 2021 Legislative Session. Senate Bill 8 allowed the State to set environmental standards “more stringent” than federal law, a change from how the law is currently written to allow […]
Content type: News
Legal Topic: Climate change,
New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business, minister for climate change James Shaw said on Tuesday. All banks with total assets of more than NZ$1 billion ($703 million), insurers with more than NZ$1 […]
Content type: News
Legal Topic: Environment,
It’s a simple incentive with big gains: plant a tree, and after three years residents can mortgage each sapling for an interest-free loan that can be renewed annually for 10 years. The money need be repaid only if the tree is chopped down. Sheeja CG, a 46- year-old farmer, has lived among coffee, coconut and […]
Content type: News
Legal Topic: Climate change,
A Bangladeshi man with asthma has avoided deportation from France after his lawyer argued that he risked a severe deterioration in his condition, and possibly premature death, due to the dangerous levels of pollution in his homeland. “To my knowledge, this is the first time a French court has applied the environment as one of […]
Content type: News
Legal Topic: Environment,
France’s highest administrative court on Thursday gave the government three months to show it is enacting climate policies that will ensure it meets its commitments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Conseil d’Etat’s ruling raises questions about the credibility of President Emmanuel Macron’s climate plan and affirms the binding nature of greenhouse gas reduction targets […]
Content type: News
Legal Topic: Climate change,
