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text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fujimori Trial Monitoring Project:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>ISLP is partnering with the Praxis Institute for Social Justice -- <span style="">a non-profit organization focusing on transitional justice, legal reform, mental health and community reconstruction in conflict and post-conflict societies -- to monitor the trial of Alberto Fujimori, the former President of Peru.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This trial is part of the growing trend for holding former heads of state accountable for crimes they may have committed while in office, and is the first wholly national trial of its kind -- taking place in Peruvian courts applying domestic Peruvian law.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span>With funding from OSI, the project<span style="color: fuchsia;"> </span>created a bilingual liveblog Web site that is maintained by a professional bilingual team based in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lima</st1:place></st1:city>.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>ISLP designed the Web site (http://fujimoriontrial.org), and selected volunteer Jim Manahan, <span style="">a practicing lawyer from <st1:state w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:state></span> with extensive experience in Latin America, including four appointments as a Fulbright Senior Scholar to teach trial advocacy skills at universities throughout <st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on">South America</st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">. Mr. Manahan arrived in </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Lima</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in January and will remain until May 2008 monitoring the trial, posting daily blog entries, and training the team on trial advocacy and monitoring.</span></span></div><p style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"> <b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mercy Corps <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Guatemala</st1:place></st1:country-region> Project:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="">&nbsp;</span>Mercy Corps is a major American nonprofit organization operating worldwide, whose mission is  to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. <span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Mercy Corps, asked ISLP to provide it with legal assistance in negotiating a memorandum of understanding among Mercy Corps, USAID and Wal-Mart in connection with a ground-breaking initiative in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Guatemala</st1:place></st1:country-region> to work with local farmers to enable them to market their products to Wal-Mart-owned supermarkets. &nbsp;This was new territory for Mercy Corps, which sees strong potential in this partnership model, and it was especially concerned with securing highly skilled legal representation to establish the best possible model documents. &nbsp;ISLP recruited Latham &amp; Watkins to represent Mercy Corps in developing the necessary memorandum of understanding and other documents, a project that was successfully completed in September 2007. &nbsp;Latham &amp; Watkins will continue to advise Mercy Corps as the project moves forward. &nbsp;Following the signing of the agreement, Mercy Corps General Counsel Mary Chaffin wrote to our volunteers  </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I wanted to let you know that we have signed the Grant Agreement for the GDA with Wal-Mart.&nbsp; Getting our first GDA grant is a tremendous achievement and one that we couldn't have managed without your expert help. </span></p></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="50"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p><center><font face="Arial" size="-2"> islp.org. all rights reserved. copyright 2008</font></center> </center></body></html>