Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Marcy Lopes, defended, this Thursday, in Luanda, the strengthening of cooperation ties between the Angolan Bar Association (OAA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC ).
According to the minister, who was speaking at the opening ceremony of the XXIII Conference and Annual General Assembly of SADC-La, which runs until the 22nd, greater interaction and exchange of ideas are needed to find robust answers to the various burning issues that countries face, because this way democracy wins.
He explained that Angola is a democracy because all Angolans, the State and other public and private institutions, including the Bar Association, work to ensure that this is the case every day.
“It is not possible to talk about democracy without law, without institutions of justice and without institutions essential and auxiliary to justice, there is no democracy without rights stipulated and exercised by citizens, in the same way there is no democracy without citizens having duties and without obliged to comply with them and rights to be safeguarded and duties to be ensured”, he argued.
XXIII, which takes place under the theme “Reengagement for the independence of lawyers and judges for the sustainable development of democracy in the SADC region”, brings together 170 delegates from the Southern region and 120 Angolan lawyers from different provinces of the country.
The conference will also address topics such as defining the role of lawyers in promoting regional economic integration: Free Continental Africa Focus (AFCFTA), cybersecurity and managing legal practice in the digital era, among others.
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