Programs: Legal Assistance and Rule of Law

 

In Ethiopia, ADF assisted the Law Faculty of the University of Addis Ababa in establishing the Ethiopian Human Rights and Peace Center to provide human rights teaching, training and research programs for students and Ethiopian society at large.

 

In Croatia, ADF helped establish a network of Croatian legal assistance organizations, which provided free legal assistance services to 125,000 refugees to facilitate their return and reintegration back to their communities of origins over a six-year period in the aftermath of the war in the former Yugoslavia.

 

In Haiti, ADF’s groundbreaking Community-Police Relations Program brought together citizens and their local police in eight communities, increasing their mutual understanding of the role of each in the respect of law and order and establishing joint committees to promote ongoing cooperation and community oversight of local policing.

 

Also in Haiti, ADF’s Projet Integré du Renforcement de la Démocratie strengthened the institutional capacity of a local non-profit lawyer’s association to provide needed free legal assistance services to the very poor and disadvantaged populations throughout the country and provide wide-scale legal education in the country to lawyers and citizens alike.