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The International Law Book Facility is a UK-based registered charity. It has a simple goal – to provide printed legal texts to legal professional bodies, advice centres, pro bono groups, law schools, institutions and individuals involved in access to justice in common law jurisdictions of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Download our most recent newsletter and to read more about how we have achieved this and about our future plans.

News

• November 2009 –The ILBF has released its second newsletters for 2009. Read the new ILBF newsletter.
  
  
• The ILBF is delighted to announce that it has formed a new strategic Development Partnership with the well respected charity Advocates for International Development (a4id). Elisabeth Baraka, Projects Officer of a4id said the following with regard to this new partnership

  “Advocates for International Development (A4ID) is pleased to welcome the International Law Book Facility as one of its Development Partners. This partnership will help to facilitate greater awareness of the services of each organisation which provide complementary support from the legal community to those in the developing world. A4ID draws together the skills and expertise of the legal profession to combat poverty and inequality of opportunity worldwide. It provides a service to civil society and developing country governments working to further the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by facilitating the provision of free legal advice and assistance through its network of lawyers. A4ID also aims to raise awareness of how the law and lawyers can support the MDGs through its education programme, events, working groups and publications. For more information, please visit A4ID’s website: www.a4id.org or contact A4ID’s Project Officer at elisabeth.baraka@a4id.org."

• As of 2009, the ILBF has recently entered into a formal cooperation agreement with the Asia Foundation (“TAF”), a significant and highly regarded non-governmental organisation based in San Francisco, USA (TAF’s websites are at www.asiafoundation.org and www.booksforasia.org). TAF maintains a strong presence in many Asian countries, providing not only texts but also many other forms of charitable input. Melody Zavala, the director of the Books for Asia branch of TAF, said:

  “[The partnership with the ILBF] can get legal texts into the hands of those that need them – from organizations working to secure the rights of women and children, to village community leaders, and to the students sharing a chair and peering over each other’s shoulders in university reading rooms.”

• As a result of a large number of recent donations in response to an appeal for books, our storage facility is now full. Please do not send any donations without contacting the ILBF first.
• April 2009 –The ILBF has released the first of two newsletters for 2009. Read the ILBF's May 2009 Newsletter.
• April 2009 –48 boxes of books have set sail for Zambia to be received by the Zambia AIDSLaw Research and Advocacy Network, the Legal Resources Foundation and the Catholic Diocese of Ndola – Paralegal Programme.
• April 2009 - 42 boxes of books were sent in a shipment to five recipients in Sudan: UNMIS on behalf of the Prisons Service of Southern Sudan, UNDP on behalf of the Police Service of Southern Sudan and on behalf of the Justice and Confidence Centres in Southern Sudan, the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly and the Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development.
• March 2009—The ILBF partnered with the Asia Foundation to send 37 boxes of books to Bangladesh. The books will be received by the following organisations: the National Woman Lawyers’ Association, Save the Children Charity, Dhaka Law School and LETI, Bangladesh Bar Council.
• October 2008—A shipment of books sent by the ILBF arrived in Sudan, to be received by the Judiciary of Southern Sudan.
• October 2008: The shipment of books sent by the ILBF to Rwanda arrived, to be received by the Rwanda Supreme Court, the Rwanda Insitute of Legal Practice and Development and the Rwanda National University.

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