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History of the Justice Working Group
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Following this event, as a part of the EMHRN strategy and for the purpose of dealing more efficiently with the issue, a Working Group on Justice was formally established in 2002. At that time, the WG decided to start its activities by gaining an overview of the situation of justice in the Euro-Mediterranean region. In 2003, two legal experts, one from the South, one from the North, were entrusted with the task to draft a report which would describe the main problems and challenges faced by the judiciaries of the Region. Following a consultation process involving members of the WG, resource persons and actors of the judiciaries from the region, the Working Group published the report “Justice in the South and East of the Mediterranean Region”. The report was highly praised – both for its methodology and for its content – and widely diffused in the whole EuroMed region and beyond. In order to further the efforts put into the report and to build up on its conclusions and recommendations, the WG decided to launch a new project focusing specifically on the issue of independence and impartiality of the judiciary. In order to strengthen and coordinate this process, a project coordinator, Fabrice Liébaut, was hired in April 2006 by the Secretariat in Copenhagen.In June, a Call for participation was launched for the Justice Working Group, and by September 2006, the WG was reestablished with new members. Currently, the main focus of the Justice Working Group materialises in a project on “Promoting the independence and impartiality of the Judiciary in the EuroMed Region”. The project comprises a number of activities including four national seminars (Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia), four national reports on the subject (Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia), one regional report on reform initiatives relative to the judiciaries within the region as well as one regional seminar at the end of the project |
