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Justice Reform Practice Group Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series
Using Legal Empowerment Strategies
to Address HIV and Human Trafficking  What role do legal empowerment strategies and improved access to legal services play in addressing discrimination against people living with HIV and key affected populations? Are legal empowerment strategies effective in preventing and combating human trafficking?
Since 2009 and with support from OFID, Ford Foundation, AusAID and the World Bank, IDLO has supported HIV-related legal services in eight countries (China, Benin, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea) with related activities in a further nine countries. In 2009, working with UNAIDS and UNDP, IDLO published the Toolkit: Scaling Up HIV-related Legal Services.
This presentation will review IDLO’s experience in providing legal services in these countries, and discuss opportunities for sustaining and expanding access to justice for vulnerable groups, including through non-state justice systems.
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THURSDAY
September 15, 2011
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Room JB1-080
World Bank
Main building
1818 H Street
Washington DC
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PRESENTER
David Patterson
Manager, Health Law Program, IDLO
CHAIR
Ferenc Molnar
Chief Counsel, LEGAF DISCUSSANT
Michael L. Pates
Director, Center for Human Rights and AIDS Coordination Project, American Bar Association
| Although this event is open to the general public, for reasons of building security, attendees who are not World Bank Group staff will need to register their interest in attending by 5pm on the day before the seminar - by emailing Rajaa Laghriab at rlaghriab@worldbank.org. The email should specify the attendee’s full name, organization or street address, email address and a phone number at which the attendee may be contacted in person. Visit the World Bank Law, Justice and Development website at www.worldbank.org/legal
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