BHRC holds regular meetings on various issues - please find flyers and minutes of meetings below:
| Date of Meeting |
Speaker/Event |
Flyer/Minutes/Documents |
| 24 March 2011 |
BHRC Meeting - Arndale House, Manchester - Developments in international human rights & the independent practice of lawyers abroad. |
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| 21 February 2011 |
BHRC Meeting - 21 February 2011 at 6:30pm - Garden Court Chambers: Targeted sanctions, pre-emptive security and fundamental rights. |
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| 6 November 2010 |
BHRC Workshop at the 2010 Bar Conference: "Upping the Standards: Holding Corporations Accountable" - 13:40-15:10, Hilton London Metropole. |
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| 29 September 2010 |
BHRC Event - 'Brave new world: A discussion on the European Union's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights'. |
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Meeting Report of the Second Working Meeting of the CDDH
Draft elements for an accession agreement on General Issues and on Technical adaptations to provisions of the ECHR
A square peg in a round hole? The accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights by Rob Linham, Bar Human Rights Committee (29 September 2010). |
| 20 May 2010 |
'Colombia - Cracking Impunity and the trial of Jorge Noguera', 18:00 at Doughty Street Chambers. Speakers include Bridget Petherbridge, Mark Cunningham QC and Kirsty Brimelow. |
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| 8 February 2010 |
'The Russian Judiciary - Priorities for Change in a New Decade'. Speakers include: Ms Olga Kudeshkina, Former Judge of the City Moscow Court and Mr Drew Holiner, Monkton Chambers with Professor Bill Bowring as Chair. |
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| 9 November 2009 |
'Colombia: The Struggle for Justice' - 6pm, Wednesday 9 November 2009 at the House of Commons. Speakers include: Martin Sandoval, Sandra Osborne MP, Andy Love MP and Kirsty Brimelow. |
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| 7 November 2009 |
BHRC at the 2009 Bar Conference: 'Regional and International Access to Justice: Building Norms and Jurisprudence'. |
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| 30 September 2009 |
'International child exploitation: developing strategic litigation', includes a viewing of 'Saving Africa's Witch Children'. Chaired by Tim Otty QC (Vice-Chair, Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales) with addresses by Gary Foxcroft (Executive Director, Stepping Stones Nigeria) and Louise Meincke (Consortium for Street Children). There will also be an open discussion on how BHRC can develop a more strategic programme of work to protect children against exploitation and other forms of human rights abuse - discussion led by Hugh Davies (BHRC member, Barrister at 3 Raymond Buildings) |
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| 16 June 2009 |
Sri Lanka: time for reform? - Addresses by: (1) Gareth Peirce, civil rights solicitor with Birnberg Peirce and Partners, on her recent case defending the head of the British Tamil Tigers Association; (2) Jan Jananayagam, human rights activist and UK spokesperson for Tamils Against Genocide and (3) Charu Hogg, Child Soldiers Coalition and Chatham House (previous Sri Lanka researcher for Human Rights Watch). |
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| 14 May 2009 |
BHRC-CAMPACC Meeting: 'Spies, Lies and the War on Terror' - speakers included Jonathan Bloch, Louise Christian, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed and Ben Hayes. |
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| 6 April 2009 |
BHRC-Peace in Kurdistan Campaign Meeting - topic: 'The Language Question: Influence on the ÔKurdish QuestionÕ in Turkey 2007-2009' with speakers Professor Robert Olson and Kerim Yildiz. |
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| 25 March 2009 |
BHRC Meeting on Colombia with speakers Kirsty Brimelow (BHRC Vice-Chair and Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers), Mark Cunningham QC (Barrister at Maitland Chambers) and Louise Winstanley (Advocacy Officer at Peace Brigades International) |
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| 26 January 2009 |
Meeting will be held with the Law Society. |
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| 1 November 2008 |
BHRC presented a highly successful Bar Conference workshop with speakers Senator David Coltart, Edward Fitzgerald CBE QC, Clare Algar of Reprieve and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. |
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Flyer |
| 10 September 2008 |
Launch of BHRC Biennial Report and farewall drinks for BHRC Project coordinator Naoimh Hughes |
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Flyer |
| 18 June 2008 |
Afghanistan and BHRC’s training programme |
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Flyer |
| 21 May 2008 |
REDRESS present on the new Torture (Damages) Bill |
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Flyer |
| 16 April 2008 |
Care Highway |
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| 19 March 2008 |
Yelena Lipster and Anne Kariithi |
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| 20 February 2008 |
The Death Penalty: Successes, Failures and the Future |
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| 8 February 2008 |
Pakistan - Asma Jahangir and Mark Muller QC |
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| 28 January 2008 |
Demonstration for Pakistsan - Asma Jahangir, Imran Khan,
Jemima Khan et al. |
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| 11 December 2007 |
Human Rights in Putin's Russia: Prof Bowring, Akhmed Zakaev,
Dmitry Gololobov, Federica Prina |
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| 12 November 2007 |
The situations of lawyers and judges in Pakistan: how can we
help? |
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| 21 November 2007 |
Guantanamo Bay - Tim Otty QC, Moazzam Begg, William Kuebler
and Rebecca Snyder |
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| 17 October 2007 |
Colombia - Eduardo Carreno, Peace Brigades International,
Sarah Lucy Cooper |
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| 19 September 2007 |
Gao Zhisheng (Chinese human rights lawyer) - Brad Adams (HRW),
Sarah Cook (editor), Naoimh Hughes (BHRC) |
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| 18 July 2007 |
Blinne Ni Ghralaigh (Matrix Chambers), Upali Cooray and
Zaheer Ahmad (Mitre House Chambers) |
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| 22 June 2007 |
Torture & disapperances in the "war on terror" |
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| 16 May 2007 |
Afghanistan Report - Brenda Campbell (Garden Court
Chambers), Naina Patel (Blackstone Chambers) |
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| 18 April 2007 |
Hasan Ali Mashaima and Ian MacDonald QC |
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| 21 March 2007 |
Reza Yazdi, Ms Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt and Annie Yang |
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Read Annie Yang's Story |
| 21 February 2007 |
Hannah Rought Brooks, Rupert Skilbeck and Rachel Bernu |
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| 17 January 2007 |
Naoimh Hughes (Torture mission to China) |
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| 15 November 2006 |
Kirsty Brimelow (187 Fleet Street) - Death Penalty in
Jamaica; Alex Glassbrook (1 Temple Gardens) - Law Society Conference in
Zimbabwe |
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| 18 October 2006 |
Miscarriages of Justice - Mr Paddy Hill (one of the
'Birmingham Six') and MOJO |
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| 20 September 2006 |
Abdul Rauf Al-Sahyeb on Bahrain and Anna Louise Pfarras,
Zimbabwe Defence and Aid Fund |
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| 25 July 2006 |
Sundus Abass, IRAQ, leading Human Rights Activist for
Women’s Rights |
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| 21 June 2006 |
Mark Willer and David Watkinson, recently awarded ‘Legal Aid
Lawyer of the Year’, on Gypsy and Traveller Rights and Smita Shah, barrister
at Garden Court Chambers, will also speak about her recent human rights
visit to Colombia |
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| 17 May 2006 |
Sarah Poland, Lawyer from International Lawyers Project and
Report from BHRC’s recent mission in Afghanistan |
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| 19 April 2006 |
Report on BHRC project to Palestine (Emma Brown); Report on Guantanamo Bay – Tim Otty (including Hamdan v Rumsfeld and Al Rawi v Foreign Secretary & others) |
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| 15 March 2006 |
Chairman’s report and a report from Guantanamo by Clive Stafford Smith |
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| 15 February 2006 |
Chairman’s report; Human Rights Manual and Sourcebook for Africa; BHRC Project in Palestine; The Trial of Orhan Pamuk and The Situation in Cote d’Ivoire. |
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| 18 January 2006 |
Report from Sudan (Michael Birnbaum QC, Sudhanshu Swaroop and Jennifer Geen); BHRC Projects (Mark Muller) and report on Hamdan v Rumsfeld (Tim Otty) |
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