EWMI News

CAMBODIA AUGUST 2011
SITHI.ORG WINS AN ISIF 2011 AWARD
EWMI is proud to announce that its partner and grantee, the Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR), has won an Information Society Innovation Fund 2011 Award.....

SERBIA JULY 2011
SPP INTRODUCES BUDGET SOFTWARE TO HCC AND COURTS
After receiving training on the new financial management software provided by EWMI’s USAID-funded Separation of Powers Program (SPP), budget and financial staff.....

GEORGIA JULY 2011
JILEP PROVIDES HANDS-ON TRAINING FOR LAWYERS
EWMI’s USAID-funded Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Program (JILEP) broke new ground in legal education by sponsoring a summer school on practical.....

SERBIA JUNE 2011
SERBIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY INCREASES ITS TRANSPARENCY, ACCESSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY
On 16 June 2011, the National Assembly of Serbia launched its new website. As the supreme representative body and holder of constitutional and legislative.....

GEORGIA JUNE 2011
GEORGIAN JUDGES LEARN FROM POLISH EXPERIENCE
On June 12, as part of an effort to support the development of a more independent judges association, EWMI-JILEP sent five representatives of the Judges Association.....

CAMBODIA MARCH 2011
HEALTH EQUITY PROGRAMS ADDRESS LEGAL BARRIERS TO DISEASE ERADICATION
Leveraging the role of the justice sector to help tackle global health inequities, this year EWMI has begun new programs in South and Southeast Asia to compliment and.....

FIJI DECEMBER 2010
DIALOGUE TRAINING WORKSHOP IN FIJI
In December, EWMI held a five-day training workshop to improve the dialogue facilitation skills of a group of Fijians in hopes of expanding the team of facilitators available to....

SERBIA NOVEMBER 2010
EWMI Continues to Encourage Case Backlog Reduction in Serbian Courts
In a continued effort to assist the judicial branch of Serbia in making its administration of justice more efficient, transparent, and responsive to the needs of its users, EWMI’s .....

MONTENEGRO OCTOBER 2010
EWMI Establishes Good Governance Project in Montenegro
The East West Management Institute is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a cooperative agreement to implement the Good Governance Activity in Montenegro .....

GEORGIA SEPTEMBER 2010
EWMI AWARDED GRANT TO IMPLEMENT RULE OF LAW PROGRAM IN GEORGIA
The East West Management Institute (EWMI) is pleased to announce that it has launched the Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Project (JILEP) in Georgia.....

SERBIA JULY 2010
SERBIA APPOINTS FIRST COURT MANAGER
EWMI’s Separation of Powers Project in Serbia is active in supporting efforts to make the administration of justice in Serbia more efficient and responsive to the needs of the .....

ECUADOR JUNE 2010
EWMI AWARDED USAID PROJECT TO STRENGTHEN JUSTICE IN ECUADOR
EWMI is pleased to announce that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded it a cooperative agreement to implement .....

CAMBODIA MAY 2010
HIGH DEMAND FOR THIRD INSTALLMENT OF SCALES OF JUSTICE
Following the popularity of the last two years' Scales of Justice TV drama, this May the East-West Management Institute (EWMI)-supported Women's Media Center.....

SERBIA APRIL 2010
USAID SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH SERBIA’S HIGH COURT COUNCIL
On April 27, 2010, Serbia High Court Council President Nata Mesarovic and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Michael Harvey.....

KOSOVO MARCH 2010
PRESIDENT OF KOSOVO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT MEETS WITH BRITISH AMBASSADOR AND DFID HEAD OF OFFICE IN KOSOVO
On March 18, 2010, EWMI facilitated an official meeting of the President of the Kosovo Constitutional Court, Prof. Dr. Enver Hasani, the British Ambassador to Kosovo.....

BOSNIA MARCH 2010
USAID RECOGNIZES THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF EWMI’s JUSTICE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
In March 2010, EWMI received its Contractor Performance Review for the Bosnia Justice Sector Development Project (JSDP), which ended in May 2009. The evaluation rated.....

KOSOVO MARCH 2010
EWMI HOLDS CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING SESSION FOR MCSCs
EWMI, in cooperation with the leading international and local safety and security stake holders, organized a three-day training for the targeted MCSCs of.....

KOSOVO MARCH 2010
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF KOSOVO ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST DECISION
On March 19 the new Constitutional Court of Kosovo announced its first decision on the merits of a case that was declared admissible. The decision rendered the emblem of.....

CAMBODIA MARCH 2010
EWMI DEVELOPS FIRST LAW JOURNAL FOR CAMBODIA
EWMI’s PRAJ II program recently completed an historical first for Cambodia: the first law journal in Cambodian history. This was a follow on activity to Cambodia’s first.....

CAMBODIA MARCH 2010
STORIES FROM EWMI’s PILOT COMMUNITY LAND DOCUMENTATION PROGRAMS
In a survey of 150 households in Doung Chrom Village in the province of Pursat in September 2009, 105 households had no land documents whatsoever. Only 20 had.....

CAMBODIA FEBRUARY 2010
EWMI LAND LAW EXPERT HOLDS SEMINAR FOR CAMBODIAN SENATE
Ms. Patricia Baars, Director of East West Management Institute’s Land Law Programs in Cambodia, worked with the Cambodia–Canada Legislative Support Project to....

CAMBODIA JANUARY 2010
CAMBODIA’S THIRD ANNUAL LAW STUDENT CLIENT COUNSELING COMPETITION
On January 28 – 29, 2010, EWMI’s USAID-funded Program on Rights and Justice 2 (PRAJ 2) worked with the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia to host....

BOSNIA JANUARY 2010
JUSTICE SECTOR CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORK INAUGURATED IN BOSNIA
On January 22, 2010, the Justice Sector Civil Society Network (JSCSN) in Bosnia held its inaugural meeting at the UNITIC Business Center in Sarajevo. Comprised of local....

SERBIA OCTOBER 2009
USAID SERBIA JUMP-STARTS COURT BACKLOG REDUCTIONS
Case backlogs exist in more than half of Serbian courts. In an effort to assist the judicial branch of Serbia in making its administration of justice more efficient, transparent, and responsive to the needs of its users EWMI’s USAID funded Separation of Powers....

CAMBODia SEPTEMBER 2009
Creating Demand for a High Quality Judicial System in Cambodia
Following the success and popularity of last year’s Scales of Justice TV drama, the East-West Management Institute (EWMI) provided the Women’s Media Center (WMC)....

Bosnia-Herzegovina SEPTEMBER 2009
EWMI Launches JSDP II in Bosnia-Herzegovina
On September 10, 2009, EWMI and USAID formally launched the new Bosnia-Herzegovina Justice Sector Development Project II (JSDP II) at a ceremony at the....

CAMBODia SEPTEMBER 2009
LEGAL AID LAWYERS REDUCE ILLEGAL DETENTIONS IN CAMBODIA
Kandal Province, Cambodia. In October 2005, Roeun Moeun was arrested on suspicion of stealing a cell phone worth $15. He was charged with robbery and put in pre-trial....

SRI LANKA JULY 2009
EWMI ASSISTS IDPs IN SRI LANKA
The end of the civil war in Sri Lanka has not resulted in a marked improvement of conditions for internally displaced persons (IDPs), and access to those in IDP camps continues to be a concern. On July 6, 2009, Jaffna Legal Aid Project....

CENTRal asia july 2009
STRENGTHENING THE ACTUARIAL PROFESSION IN EURASIA
For the past two years, EWMI’s Partners for Financial Stability Program (PFS) has worked with the Actuarial Society of Kazakhstan (ASK) to further develop their professional....

EGYPT MAY 2009
EWMI HELPS CLARIFY RIGHT TO COUNSEL ISSUES IN EGYPT
In May 2009, the Administration of Criminal Justice Project (AOCJ) printed and distributed 5,000 Arabic and 300 English copies of its Right to Counsel Handbook....

KOSOVO MARCH 2009
Administrative Instructions for Municipal Councils on Safety in Communities Finalized
For the past 6 months, the East-West Management Institute (EWMI) has been leading the effort to draft administrative instructions that would provide municipalities in Kosovo....

LIBERIA FEBRUARY 2009
EWMI Awards Grant to Support Access to Justice in Liberia
The East-West Management Institute, through a direct grant to the Liberian NGO “Prison Fellowship Liberia” (PFL), is seeking to lower the population of those unlawfully....