Canadian Lawyers Abroad is a dynamic charitable organization that engages in groundbreaking work in the developing world and in Canada's north in the areas of good governance, rule of law and human rights. 

Avocats canadiens à l’étranger est un organisme à but non lucratif travaillant dans les pays en voie de développement et dans le nord du Canada. Notre travail innovateur met l’accent sur la bonne gouvernance, la primauté du droit et les droits de la personne.

Upcoming Events & Ongoing Projects

• NEWS: CLA-ACE Co-Founders Catherine McKenna & Yasmin Shaker, along with 2009 Summer Intern Brittany Twiss, give a presentation to LexisNexis Canada about our Student Program. For details about the presentation, click here. To see pictures, click here [Flickr].
• NEWS: CLA-ACE's ACWHRP Project is covered in the Globe and Mail! Click here to read the article online or in .pdf [52 kb]
• NEWS: Our interns are blogging! Read about Annabel's adventures in Accra, and Andrew's experiences in Indonesia.
• NEWS: The donation of books to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have arrived in Kumasi, Ghana! For pictures, click here [Flickr].
• NEWS: The 2010 Summer Student Interns have been announced! Click here to read about where our interns will be working, and here to read their biographies.
• EVENT: The ACWHRP Customary Law and Marital Rape subcommittees met in Nairobi, Kenya, in Feburary, 2010. For more details about the ACWHRP's work, click here. To see photos from the workshop, click here [Flickr].
• NEWS: CLA-ACE is on Facebook! Click here to join our group.
• CLA-ACE Executive Director Catherine McKenna visits Ghana for our Clinical Legal Education project at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST)

Articles of Interest

• NEWS: CLA-ACE Supports Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) Rule of Law Education Series - Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan [via the Financial Post]
• NEWS: "Resilience Personified," article on Flora Terah by Katie Stewart [via the Ottawa Citizen]
• NEWS: "Beaten, tortured, but undaunted," article on Flora Terah by Janet Bagnall [via the Montreal Gazette]
• NEWS: "A Profile in Courage,"article on Flora Terah by Janice Kennedy [via the Ottawa Citizen]
• NEWS: CLA-ACE Board Member Pearl Eliadis: "Quite Simply, Torture is a Crime" online | .pdf
• NEWS: Le comité Avocats canadiens à l'étranger de l'Université de Montréal vient de faire paraître la 4e édition de son journal Perspectives internationales. Disponible ici en version PDF.