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Combating Discrimination through Strategic Litigation in Bosnia

Strategic Litigation Training BiH

On 24 – 25 April 2008, the Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) organized the first training on Strategic Litigation in Anti-discrimination in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which aimed to build the skills of lawyers and advocates to combat discrimination across the country through strategic litigation.

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Chudamani Acharya

Chudamani AcharyaOne experience permanently altered Chudamani Acharya's outlook on the law. "In Nepal, there was a forest that was taken care of by the people. The government, for selfish reasons, took control of the area. Seeing what was occurring, the people fought to keep their land. The police arrested many citizens and in the process, one person was killed. It became a case of humanitarianism versus individualism ...

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Separate and Unequal
Separate and UnequalCombating Discrimination against Roma in Education.
A Source BookThe source book represents a collection of essays which document the struggle for the integration of schools in Central and Eastern Europe. Taken together, they aim to elucidate the complexity of the phenomenon of educational segregation.
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  • Changes Name to Public Interest Law Institute.


  • Enabling Civil Society is available in a second edition. For this and other PILI publications, please visit the publications page.

  • "Perpetrating Good," the latest in the PILI Paper series, can be downloaded from the publications page.

  • The Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) is offering a summer course titled Teaching Law, Human Rights and Ethics from July 7 to 11, 2008.

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Reforming Higher Legal Education in the FSU

Planning Meeting - Kiev

Helping to improve higher legal education in former Soviet countries is one of the most important initiatives of PILI’s Legal Education Reform program. ...

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