Internationale rechtliche Zusammenarbeit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Board of Trustees meeting and General Assembly of the IRZ

IRZ Under the leadership of the Chair of the Board of Trustees – Parliamentary State Secretary at the BMJV – Ms Anette Kramme, new members of the Board of Trustees were elected at the joint meeting of the Board of Trustees and the IRZ Association, ...

Delegation from the Ukrainian Constitutional Court and Supreme Court

Ukraine As part of a working visit organised jointly by GIZ and IRZ, a delegation of five judges from the Constitutional Court and five judges from the Supreme Court of Ukraine are visiting Karlsruhe, Munich and Vienna this week for a professional exch...

Prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment within the armed forces

Armenia Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) states that no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Prosecutors in the Armenian military who are responsible for ensuring the legality...

Resilience meets Arbitration

Ukraine From 15. – 18. September 2025, the 18 Ukrainian students and their coaches, gathered upon the invitation of the DIS and the IRZ at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow for the Drafting School on International Contract Law and Dispute Resolut...

Witness protection in criminal proceedings

Kosovo At the end of September, experts from Germany and Kosovo met in Pristina to discuss current legal challenges and solutions relating to witness protection, leniency programmes and juvenile criminal proceedings. During the intensive discussions, ...

19th German-Ukrainian Colloquium on Administrative Procedure

Ukraine Four Ukrainian administrative judges at the Higher Administrative Court in Koblenz, the Administrative Court in Mainz, and both the Minister of Justice and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate were shown great solidarity and respect: de...

Deepening German-Uzbek judicial cooperation

Usbekistan Ms Anette Kramme, Parliamentary State Secretary at the BMJV and also President of the Board of Trustees of IRZ, and Alexandra Albrecht, General Director of the IRZ, were part of a German delegation that was received by the Minister of Justic...

Genocide denial also jeopardises the future

Bosnien und Herzegowina "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, writer and literary critic). That is why, in 2021, the then High Representative Valentin Inzko declared the denial of genoci...