BHRC has today released a Special Report on Judicial Independence in Hong Kong SAR, which applies the ABA Judicial Independence Monitor Toolkit designed to assess vulnerabilities and strengths of judicial independence in different jurisdictions. The BHRC report concisely and authoritatively sets out the current situation and critical challenges to judicial independence in Hong Kong for...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales (BHRC) is seeking an energetic, organised, and experienced professional to support the Project Officer and Committee in delivering exciting and impactful international human rights work. We are looking for a Communications, Events, and Projects Assistant (part-time) who is proactive and efficient with an eye for detail,...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (‘BHRC’) will host a virtual panel event on Wednesday 15 February 2023 bringing leading lawyers and civil society representatives to spotlight serious concerns about human rights violations and the rule of law in Pakistan. This panel event is the third in BHRC’s ‘Diminishing Democracy’ series following...
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Image Credit: Leonid Altman / Shutterstock The Bar Council of England and Wales and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) join the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) and Bar leaders around the world in expressing concern over the conviction of Richard Naidu by the High Court of Fiji for “scandalising” the...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales (‘BHRC’) will welcome Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, for a very special in-person and live-streamed keynote and panel discussion event on Tuesday 15 November 2022 at Garden Court Chambers in London at 6pm. This panel event, titled ‘The criminalisation...
Image Credit: Natanael Ginting / Shutterstock The Bar Council of England and Wales and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) join the international legal community’s call on the Iranian Government to end the arrest, detention, and intimidation of lawyers in Iran. These attacks represent a grave threat to the rule...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (‘BHRC’) will host a virtual panel event on Wednesday 19 October 2022 to spotlight serious concerns about human rights violations and the rule of law in Sri Lanka. This event is the second in BHRC’s Diminishing Democracy series and follows a panel on rule of...
Download High-Res Report Here and Download Low-Res Report Here The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative are proud to release this new joint report, The Edge of Law: A regional approach to confronting key legal challenges. The Report synthesises the findings of a path...
Image Credit: catastrophe_OL / Shutterstock BHRC was proud to partner with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) on a series of four virtual dialogues held between November 2021-March 2022, through which BHRC and ABA ROLI sought to and succeeded in creating a regional platform where practitioners, academics, civil society actors and...
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