Liberia will for the first time host the Annual Rotational Meeting of the African Regional Group of the International Association of Judges, (IAJ).
The meeting, which is expected to take place at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ministerial Complex beginning Monday, May 6, 2024, is organized by the National Trial Judges of Liberia (NATJL).
Delegates at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the IAJ African Regional Group held in Bamako, Mali, unanimously selected Liberia as the venue for the 2024 IAJ Meeting.
The Theme of this year’s gathering of the IAJ is:” The Judiciary in Contemporary Times; Dispensing Justice in the New Information Age.”
Addressing a team of reporters at the Temple of Justice, the President of the National Trial Judges Association, Nancy Sammy gave the importance of the event.
According to Judge Sammy, the IAJ is a professional, non-political international organization, and its key objective is to promote the rule of law, access to justice, independence of the Judiciary and the protection of human rights.
She said the IAJ was founded in 1958 in Salzburg, Austria, and has its headquarters in Rome, Italy, noting that it comprises of 98 member countries and Representative groups from five continents, with the African Regional Group comprising twenty countries, including Liberia.
