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Human Rights,Democracy & Good Governance Through Public Interest Litigation                              Human Rights,Democracy & Good Governance Through Public Interest Litigation

 
             
Resource Center

 

Welcome to the West Africa Public Interest Litigation Resource Centre!

The Documentation Centre is meant to serve as a repository of up-to-date information on contemporary human rights, democracy, public interest and constitutional issues within the West Africa sub-region.

The collections which are made up of books, law reports, journals, CD-ROMs and databases are open to use by partners and other stakeholders with a view to support and promote research in the above subject areas. The materials at the Documentation Centre are organised using the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme. Other topics with relevance to law, such as gender issues, etc can also be found.

 

WAPILC Documentation Center & Information Service is now fully operational. It has a large collection of resources on various topics in different fields of the law. Please click here to access the Library Catalogue. Then contact us for the content for your immediate information need.


· International Law

· Human Rights Law

· Public Interest Law/Litigation (cases)

· Constitutional/Administrative Law

· Criminal Law

· Private Law

· Labour/Employment Law, etc.

· Laws of Ghana, The Gambia, etc

· Law Reports and Journals

· Others

 

Public Interest Litigation Cases in India

Public Interest Ligation cases in India which judgments had been successfully delivered by the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court accordingly. read more

 

EBSCO Database

 

For access to this database  send an email with the subject "SUBSCRIBE" to info@wapilc.org

 

Ghana Law Reports click here to view

 

News

Publications

Links

References

 

Opening Hours

The Documentation Center is open from Monday to Friday,1000Hrs - 1700Hrs except on weekends or during public holidays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vision

 "To help achieve a West African Community where citizens have greater access to Justice through the development of effective capacities and implementable jurisprudence by means of Public  Interest  Litigation"

 

                    Mission

"To build the capacity of lawyers, judicial officers and other stakeholders in West Africa to ensure, through Public Interest Litigation, that government policies and practices in the formulation and implementation of laws, treaties and covenants in national, sub-regional and regional settings are in the public interest; and To ensure the development of a Public Interest Law jurisprudence in the sub-region that can be shared and used to improve access to justice in national jurisdictions"

 

Programs

 

  • Capacity Building

  • Supporting Litigation

  • Research, Publication & Dissemination

  • Building Support Network

 

 
West Africa Countries
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

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