2025

• Design of the Collaborative Roadmap between CEJA and the OAS , aimed at strengthening inter-institutional cooperation in the hemisphere.
• Studies: I Judicial Congestion Index in the Americas 2025 and Indicators to Evaluate Judicial and Public Prosecutor’s Independence in the Americas .
• Study: Redesigning Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms: CEJA’s Proposals for New Public Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean , in partnership with IDRC Canada.
• New regional training program: Artificial Intelligence and Justice Systems: Ethical Perspectives, Experiences and Legal Regulation .
• New regional training program: Following the Money Against Corruption , in partnership with the German Federal Foreign Office.
• The institutional website has been redesigned to be more user-friendly, modern, and accessible. It incorporates 26 years of experience and includes detailed information for each state.
• Bruno Novoa (Peru) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2024

• Official recognition of CEJA by the OAS through Resolution AG/RES. 3029 (LIV-O/24) , which commemorates its 25th anniversary and highlights its hemispheric contribution to justice.
• CEJA reaches an unprecedented figure in regional training, with more than 3,000 professionals trained from the justice and civil society sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Study: Ways to resolve civil and family conflicts and their effectiveness in Colombia and Peru , in partnership with IDRC Canada.
• Strengthening cooperation with Mexico, with training programs for the judicial branches of Mexico City, Querétaro and Nayarit.
• International Seminar: Conflict Resolution Mechanisms: Dialogues for a new regional agenda , held in Colombia, with the participation of 11 countries.
• Participation in the 54th OAS General Assembly (Paraguay), with four parallel events on gender, freedom of association, organized crime and access to justice.

2023

• Regional study: Independence of justice operators in the Americas: regional situation and challenges for democratic defense , presented in Washington, DC
• Training for more than 1,500 professionals from 14 countries in the region on topics of judicial management, gender, civil and criminal justice.
• Project launch: Ways to resolve civil and family conflicts and their effectiveness in Colombia and Peru , in partnership with IDRC Canada.
• Technical assistance for the design of the Criminal Policy for Criminal Prosecution of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Chile.
• Modernization and relaunch of the CEJACampus virtual training platform .
• For the first time, CEJA is participating in the OAS General Assembly in an official capacity, with its Executive Director addressing the plenary.
• María Victoria Rivas (Paraguay) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2022

• Nataly Ponce Chauca assumes the Executive Directorship of CEJA, becoming the first woman to hold this position.
• Development of the new CEJA Strategic Plan 2022–2026 , based on a broad participatory process in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Publication of the studies: Effective criminal defense with a gender perspective in Latin America , Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) and Negotiated Justice in the United States, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay .
• New regional training program Improving the criminal prosecution of gender violence , in partnership with the German Foreign Ministry.
• International Seminar: Access to Justice for People in Situations of Mobility in Mexico and Central America .
• Seminars in Argentina, Chile and Peru focused on judicial reforms, judicial independence and access to justice with a gender and intersectionality approach.
• International Visit Programs to Chile on reforms to criminal and labor justice.

2021

• Installation of the Forum on Access to Justice and the Right to Health in Latin America, in the context of COVID-19.
• Contribution to the constitutional process in Chile through seminars and meetings with thematic commissions related to justice.
• Exploratory study: Justice of the Peace in Mendoza, Argentina .
• Seminar: Justice in Social Context .
• Virtual seminar: Access to Justice for Women Victims of Violence in Latin America .
• Jenny Willier Murphy (United States) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2020

• Institutional adaptation to virtuality due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Comparative study of civil procedural codes in Latin America.
• Study: State of the Legal Profession in Latin America .
• V Inter-American Training Program on Civil Justice Reform (PIC) .
• Reflection forum: Impact of COVID-19 measures on access to justice and economic, social, cultural and environmental rights (ESCR) in Latin America.

2019

• Technical assistance to the Criminal Procedure Reform in Brazil.
• Technical cooperation to the Judicial Branch of Mexico City (CDMX) to install a Pilot Program for Oral Litigation in civil courts.
• Technical cooperation to the Judicial Branch of the Province of La Pampa (Argentina) aimed at implementing a Pilot Program for Oral Civil Litigation.
• Course on Conducting Civil Hearings for the Judicial Branch of the State of Puebla (Mexico).
• Meeting of the Network of Oral Civil and Commercial Judges in Mexico.
• Daniel Petrone (Argentina) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2018

• Implementation of the gender equality policy at CEJA and commitment to adopt a balanced presence in hiring, which constituted the most significant and profound institutional innovation.
• Meeting of the Observatory of Civil Conflict and Access to Justice (OCCA).
• Technical cooperation with the Peruvian Judiciary to promote an oral and adversarial civil justice model.
• Brazilian Training Program for Criminal Justice Reform.
• Central American Diploma in Criminal Procedure Reform (DCA).
• Manuel Montecino (El Salvador) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2017

• Creation of the Observatory of Civil Conflict and Access to Justice (OCCA).
• Incorporation of the gender perspective in CEJA.
• Brazilian Training Program for Criminal Justice Reform.
• Course in Litigation Skills and Management of Civil Oral Hearings for the Judiciary and practicing lawyers of Costa Rica.
• International Conference on the Reform of the Uruguayan Criminal Procedure.

2016

• Study: Evaluation of the Criminal Procedure Reform in Chile 10 years after its implementation .
• CEJA assumes the General Secretariat of the Latin American Network of Criminal Analysis Directorates of Public Prosecutor’s Offices.
• Diploma in Oral Criminal Litigation (DLOP), taught in Washington, DC, in conjunction with American University Washington College of Law (AU–WCL) .
• First version of the Inter-American Training Program on Civil Justice Reform (PIC) .
• Mission to support the fight against corruption and impunity in Honduras (MACCIH).
• Santiago Pereira (Uruguay) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2015

• Launch of the regional project Improving Access to Civil Justice in Latin America (2015–2021) , with technical and financial support from Global Affairs Canada (GAC).
• Start of the New Criminal Justice (NJP) Support Project in Mexico, with bilateral cooperation funds from Chile and Mexico (CEJA–AMEXCID–AGCI).
• Central American Diploma in Criminal Procedural Reform (DCA), taught in Guatemala and Costa Rica.
• Virtual course: Introduction to Gender Issues in Criminal Justice in Latin America .
• International Seminar on the Management of Public Prosecutor’s Offices.
• Douglass Cassel (United States) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2014

• Jaime Arellano Quintana assumes the Executive Directorship of CEJA.
• Participation and technical support in the Ministerial Commission for the creation of the New Social Reintegration Service of Chile, Ministry of Justice of Chile.
• Program on Judicial Reform in Latin America and the United States, developed in conjunction with American University Washington College of Law (AU–WCL) and CEJA.
• Evaluation of the impact of the New Fiscal Management Model of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Guatemala.
• International Seminar: Towards the construction of the New Bolivian Criminal Justice System.

2013

• Technical support in judicial governance to strengthen the role and functioning of the Superior Council of the Judiciary of Haiti in its institutional redesign process.
• Study: Current situation of labor justice reform in Chile and Peru.
• International Course: Tools to address the most frequent causes of error in the conviction of innocent people .
• Webinar: Civil Procedural Reform and Public Policies.
• Colloquium: Orality in civil proceedings: a practical approach to its problems and difficulties.

2012

• Strengthening the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Guatemala: technical support for the implementation of the new fiscal organization model.
• Technical support in the discussion of the Civil Procedure Reform in Chile.
• Study: Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Latin America in non-criminal matters , with support from German Cooperation (GIZ).
• Training in litigation and criminal procedural reform in Brazil.
• International Congress: Reforms to Civil Justice in Latin America .
• Marc Rosenberg (Canada) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2011

• Support for the restructuring of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Bolivia.
• Study: The approach to the issue of legal security in the Judicial Schools of Ibero-America .
• Technical support in the discussion of the Civil Procedure Reform in Chile.
• Three new online courses: Pretrial Detention in Latin America , Drug Treatment Courts and Pretrial Services .
• International Seminar on e-Justice.
• Hebe Martínez (Uruguay) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2010

• Incorporation of the gender perspective in the course Introduction to Gender Issues in Criminal Justice in Latin America .
• Study: The Transformation of Civil Justice in Latin America: Content and Challenges .
• Index of Online Judicial Services (ISJL) .
• Research: Implementation of the Audience Management Model in Guatemala .
• Russell Wheeler (United States) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2009

• Study: Recursive regimes in accusatory criminal procedural systems in the Americas .
• Virtual course: Introduction to Gender Issues in Criminal Justice in Latin America .
• Ibero-American Seminar: Transparency, Accountability and Integrity of the Judicial Powers.
• Support for the redesign of family justice in Chile.
• Workshop: Access to Justice and Social Cohesion.

2008

• Cristian Riego Ramírez assumes the Executive Directorship of CEJA.
• Annual Report on Justice in the Americas 2008–2009 .
• Regional study: Challenges of Pretrial Detention in Criminal Procedure Reform .
• International Seminar: Intelligent Strategies for Crime Reduction: Crime Analysis and Intelligent Criminal Prosecution .
• White Paper on the use of technology in justice.

2007

• Annual Report on Justice in the Americas 2006–2007 .
• Study: Progress and challenges of public defenders in guaranteeing access to justice in criminal procedural reforms in Latin America .
• Virtual Training Program for Prosecutors in Latin America.
• First Inter-American Meeting of the Network of the Inter-American Program for Training Trainers for Criminal Procedure Reform .
• Seminar: Freedom of Expression and the New Criminal Procedure: A Conflictive Relationship?
• Jaime Arellano Quintana (Chile) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2006

• Technical assistance to the State of Haiti for the strengthening of its legal and judicial system.
• Advising the State Commission of Justice of the Republic of Panama.
• Comparative study of judicial reforms in Latin America.
• Round Table: Citizen Security and Criminal Procedure Reform .
• Seminar: International Experiences for Civil Justice Reform.

2005

• Creation of CEJAREDEX , a network of CEJA alumni.
• Annual Report on Justice in the Americas 2004–2005 .
• Studies on criminal procedural reforms in Latin America: results of the follow-up project, local discussions and innovation experiences.
• Public Criminal Defense Manual for Latin America and the Caribbean , prepared within the framework of the Ibero-American Forum on Access to Justice, held in Chile.
• Workshop and observation visit on the functioning of the Judicial Branch of Chile.

2004

• Creation of the CEJA virtual training platform – CEJACAMPUS (e-learning).
• First Index of Accessibility to Judicial Information on the Internet (IAcc) .
• First Inter-American Regional Training Program for Trainers for Criminal Procedure Reform .
• Litigation Course at the University of Buenos Aires.
• International Seminar: Advances and Challenges of the Accusatory System in Latin America .
• Federico Callizo Nicora (Paraguay) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2003

• Creation of the CEJA Virtual Library.
• First Annual Report on Justice in the Americas 2002–2003.
• Study: Gender and Judicial Reforms, with support from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
• Ibero-American Workshop on Judicial Statistics, Honduras.
• Workshop for Civil Society Organizations: Guide to Women’s Courts, within the framework of the Inter-American Seminar on Gender and Justice.

2002

• First annual meeting of the Network of Civil Society Organizations for Justice in the Americas.
• International Seminar: Experiences of Reforms in Judicial Management.
• International Course: Instruments for Judicial Reforms, Chile.
• Virtual Forum: Judicial Independence.

2001

• Headquarters Agreement between the Government of Chile and CEJA.
• CEJA’s first institutional website.
• Creation of the Ibero-American Network of Judicial Schools (RIAEJ), proposed by CEJA within the framework of the VI Ibero-American Judicial Summit.
• First study on criminal procedural reforms in Latin America.
• International Congress: Criminal Policy and Regional Integration, Brazil.
• First edition of the Judicial Systems magazine, in partnership with INECIP Argentina.
• Douglass Cassel (United States) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.

2000

• Juan Enrique Vargas Viancos assumes the Executive Directorship of CEJA.
• Start of duties at the University Promotion Corporation (CPU) of Santiago, Chile.
• First International Seminar: Implementing the New Criminal Procedure in Ecuador: The Changes and Challenges it Entails, in Quito.

1999

• Creation of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) by Resolution of the XXVI General Assembly of the OAS.
• Mónica Nagel Bergera (Costa Rica) assumes the Presidency of the Board of Directors.