The Sao Tome Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and the University of Minho (UM) of Portugal signed a cooperation protocol for the creation of a training school for magistrates and civil servants.

The protocol, signed by the former rector of the UM, António Cunha, and by the minister Roberto Raposo, appears in the scope of the reform of the judicial sector in Sao Tome and Principe. The agreement is a first step towards the institutionalization of the training school for magistrates and civil servants in which UM participates with the sending of teachers. Also present at the ceremony, the president of the School of Law of the University of Minho, Clara Calheiros, stressed the importance of the training project for magistrates and public administration staff and support for legislative activity. With the signing of this agreement, the Sao Tome government intends to respond to the desires of a consolidation and improvement of its judicial and administrative structure, and where law should not establish barriers between rich and poor.

June 4th, 2015

The Sao Tome Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and the University of Minho (UM) of Portugal signed a cooperation protocol for the creation of a training school for magistrates and civil servants.

The protocol, signed by the former rector of the UM, António Cunha, and by the minister Roberto Raposo, appears in the scope of the reform of the judicial sector in Sao Tome and Principe. The agreement is a first step towards the institutionalization of the training school for magistrates and civil servants in which UM participates with the sending of teachers. Also present at the ceremony, the president of the School of Law of the University of Minho, Clara Calheiros, stressed the importance of the training project for magistrates and public administration staff and support for legislative activity. With the signing of this agreement, the Sao Tome government intends to respond to the desires of a consolidation and improvement of its judicial and administrative structure, and where law should not establish barriers between rich and poor.

June 4th, 2015