UNITED NATIONS RECOGNITIONS

LWOB has held consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations since 2004. 

The Economic and Social Council division of the United Nations (ECOSOC) granted LWOB special consultative status on July 21, 2004. The approval of consultative status opened additional opportunities for LWOB to meet other NGOs and to collaborate with various international organizations. This status entitles the NGO to several UN grounds passes, designated authorized representatives with the privilege to  sit as observers at public meetings of the Council and its subsidiary bodies, and permits members of LWOB to attend, engage in and conduct workshops and other events at international conferences called by the UN.

LWOB granted accreditation with United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI)

In 2003, LWOB was granted associative status with United Nations Department of Public Information, UN-DPI. This status enables LWOB to be involved with UN efforts on a global basis. It needs to be an accrediation afforded only to NGOs with truly international scope and reach.  LWOB is a regular particpant in annual global events sponsored by the UN-DPI NGO sections.

SOME EARLY ACHEIVEMENTS

LWOB accepted into Law Works for People Pro Bono program developed by the CT Bar Association (CBA).

Established in 1991, Law Works is a collaboration between Connecticut’s legal services agencies and the CBA. The goal of the program is to recruit attorney and paralegal volunteers to provide legal representation for low-income clients who are screened by a legal services agency and deemed eligible for pro bono services. In return for your volunteer service, The Law Works For People provides many support services, including free training, mentoring by colleagues, Continuing Legal Education (CLE) vouchers, recognition, and publications.

LWOB enters  Phase of Advanced Programming Development after completing inital programming involving each of LWOB's Project Models: Trial observations (Ethiopia and Namibia); Judicial and Lawyer Training (Kenya and Liberia); Community Outreach -CORP (Liberia, Rwanda) Transition Roadmap and Research (LAC), Case Index, Digest and Bench Briefs  (Liberia) and Student/Law Firm (CLEARS) collaborative Research (LAC, Namibia); Judical/Legal Professional Exchange "LexPro" (Liberia).

Programming developed in 2010 integrates mediation training modules into the existing trial advocacy programming,  adding  Community Outreach Access to Justice programming to compliment all judicial sector capacity building programs and establishing microenterprise engines for rule of law programing that address empowerment of marginalized members of society in developing regions. Our trial advocacy trainings now cover factual scenarios to include: Gender Based Violence, Inheritance, Succession and Title to Land, Electoral Violence or Challenges, Trafficking in Persons and Domestic Violence.

We now have an independent affiliate relationship with Lawyers Without Borders UK Limited with headquarters in London, UK.