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In its role as a dual membership organisation, comprising 40,000 individual lawyers and 197 Bar Associations and Law Societies, the International Bar Association (IBA) influences the development of international law reform and helps shape the future of the legal profession. Its Member Organisations cover all continents and include the American Bar Association, the German Federal Bar, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, the Law Society of Zimbabwe and the Mexican Bar Association.

The IBA's Human Rights Institute works across the Association, helping to promote, protect and enforce human rights under a just rule of law, and to preserve the independence of the judiciary and the legal profession worldwide.

Through its contract with the United States Institute of Peace, the IBA has created a worldwide directory of organisations offering assistance to the rule of law. The purpose of the International Rule of Law Directory is to provide users with reliable information and a compiled directory of Internet resources and links to organisations offering assistance to the rule of law. The International Rule of Law directory is designed to improve access to, and the dissemination of, information and will facilitate the support of organisations engaged in the area of the rule of law.

This is the first centralised, fully searchable, online database of entities engaged in rule of law work throughout the world and will provide an invaluable tool to those establishing and implementing rule of law programmes. It allows organisations to provide a brief description of the rule of law work carried out, to define assistance provided by category (searchable) and to include their contact details and web address.

Organisations which would like to be included in the database, and which qualify, are invited to complete the form attached, and are also requested to tick the appropriate categories of assistance they provide.

Only organisations which fit one or more categories listed on our form will be included. The IBA reserves the right to remove an organisation from the database if it considers that it does not fulfil the relevant criteria.

Please assist us in creating this important worldwide tool for promoting the rule of law. Please fill in the "register here" form and press the submit button on the form. To access information or the web press search.

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