Something About
Avocats Sans Frontières France, also known as Advocaten Zonder Grenzen, is an international NGO, active in the human rights and development sector.
The organisation was created during the International Conference for Common Law Bars (CIB – Conférence Internationale des Barreaux de tradition juridique commune).
Thereafter – in 1991 – during a Congress in Yaoundé (Cameroon), a resolution was passed under the impetus of Bar Chairmen Mario Stasi (Paris’ Bar) and Titinga Pacéré (Burkina Faso’s Bar).The first association was created in 1991 in Belgium.
