Rwanda : Rwanda to host 27th International Bar Association conference

The Rwanda Bar Association in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice is working on logistics that will enable Rwanda to host the 27^th international Bar Association conference (Congrès International des Barreaux- CIB).

The international conference is slated from 17^th to 19^th December 2012, is a high ranking meeting usually hosted by French speaking countries and brings together presidents of Bar Associations and other high ranking personalities in the legal fraternity from the entire francophone world.

The president of Rwanda’s Bar Association, Athanase Rutabingwa says that the meeting is a vote of confidence for Rwanda as a country, especially in the view of the challenges the country has gone through and several reforms undertaken to address the challenges in the justice sector.

Rwanda has made tremendous steps and adjustments in the justice sector, which have seen the completion of over one million cases of genocide by Gacaca courts, the speeding up of cases resolved in court and by the community though the mediators, and the country also being in position to now try cases of international criminals extradited to Rwanda through the ICTR.

The Rwanda Bar Association in conjunction with the Ministry of Justice addressed a press conference today July 12, 2012 at the ministry’s conference room- in which the officials updated the press on the preps.

Rutabingwa said that “this conference will be an opportunity for Rwanda to exibit its achievements after the genocide especially in the justice sector. This will also be an chance for the advocates to tell the story of Rwanda and encourage their clients to invest in the country basing on first hand information they will have get while in the country”