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USAID Strengthens Public Dialogue on Legal Ethics
USAID’s implementing partner, ABA/CEELI, organized a third roundtable discussion on legal professional ethics in Ashgabat on May 25, 2006. By bringing together private defenders, government judges, trade union attorneys, as well as representatives from legal NGOs and the Institute of Democracy and Human rights, the roundtable became a significant step in establishing a dialogue between lawyers in the public, private, and government sectors. Both experienced lawyers and recent law university graduates spoke openly on the importance of lawyers’ ethical behavior and discussed observance of confidentiality, conflict of interests, and corruption. Participants also stressed the importance to develop a new generation of ethical and skilled lawyers in Turkmenistan.
USAID-supported legal workshops and round tables are the only means in Turkmenistan to address the issue of interrelations between state and society in the sphere of legal practice and to facilitate legislation improvements to eradicate wide-spread corruption in the country’s judicial system. Government’s support and participation in this legal workshop shows an increased interest in the official circles to address the problem.
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| USAID-supported workshops help address an issue of concern to many Turkmen people: corruption in the country’s judicial system |
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