Within the movement, the office of LWB in Brussels is the largest, counting on 11 staff at the head office and more than 191 employees (out of which 179 people are locally recruited and 11 are expatriates) in the offices of its permanent missions in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, East Timor and Nepal, in addition to volunteer lawyers in each of these countries.
In addition to its international cooperation programs in the above-mentioned countries, the team of LWB in Brussels is engaged in a long term project in Israel and Palestine; it is also active in the field of international criminal law and manages the "Lawyer for Lawyer" project (a support mission for local lawyers in sensitive cases of human rights defence) as well as the "Globalization and Justice" program (an awareness raising campaign on the globalization of justice and the impact on development).
In 2010, LWB Brussels launched the International Legal Network, which allows lawyers from across the world to participate in international solidarity interventions.
Also in 2010, LWB Brussels débuted a new multinational program for the promotion of the International Criminal Court and for its increased efficiency, notably in collaboration with civil society organizations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Colombia, East Timor and Nepal.
LWBC is the partner for LWB Brussels on this project on the International Criminal Court, for Latin America. The two organizations also collaborate on the program of LWBC in Haiti.
The team of LWB France has 9 employees, which receive the targeted support of interns at the head office in Toulouse, and a team of some 70 volunteers who are responsible, notably, for the development and the implementation of the international cooperation projects.
The main projects of LWB France are currently underway in Nigeria (campaign against torture and the death penalty), in francophone Africa (training program), in Cambodia (defence for the victims of the Khmer Rouge before the Extraordinary Chambers of the Cambodian tribunals) and in Laos (reinforcement of the legal profession). LWB France has also put in place the International Observatory for Lawyers, a protection and defence mechanism for lawyers under threat on account of their human rights defence activities. LWB France also offers continuing legal education programs in France.
Sponsored by LWB France at the time of its creation, LWBC collaborated with this organization in the implementation of certain projects, notably in Nigeria
Other LWB groups were created in different countries of Europe, Africa and South America. However, the international movement is not federated. Certain national groups are part of the LWB Network, established by LWB France. LWBC is not a member of the LWB Network.
LWBC is in no way related to Lawyers Without Borders, Inc., an organization based in Hartford (United States) which is independent and distinct, nor with Mr. William Goldnadel, who also uses, in France, the name of "Lawyers Without Borders".
