Significant Progress in Civil Legal Aid Reforms in Russia
When the Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) organized its first public discussion in Russia dedicated to issues of legal aid reform almost five years ago, the subject was something that hardly anyone was willing to discuss. ...
"A wonderful coincidence" is how Kolawole (Kola) Ogunbiyi describes his initial involvement with law and human rights. Kola's early interest was in business administration but circumstances led him to pursue his diploma in law. Since then, he has worked tirelessly for the rights of the prison population in Nigeria and has worked to create a new framework to reform and reorganize Nigeria's prison system.
PILI's first class of Public Interest Legal Services Fellows recently gathered at Tsinghua University in Beijing for a three-day training co-organized by PILI and the Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators (CCCLE) and sponsored by the Ford Foundation. ...