Internationale Vereinigung für richterliche Unabhängikeit und Weltfrieden

The association has the purpose of promoting the ideals of peace, democracy, independence and freedom by strengthening and maintaining judicial independence in all its aspects; promoting the principle of judicial independence as a central foundation of democracy and domestic and international peace; encouraging and supporting the development of a culture of judicial independence; designing and revising from time to time international standards for judicial independence based on the consultations and work of an international team of jurists; carrying out research projects on judicial independence and world peace; assisting judges, judicial authorities and jurists when judicial independence is threatened or challenged; holding conferences on judicial independence; initiating educational projects that promote judicial independence; and vigorously opposing and pursuing threats to judicial independence or hostile actions and practices against it.