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Amicus Briefs, Legal Analysis, Opinions, Training & Capacity Building Reports

Year Country Type of Activity Report
2010 USA Amici Curiae Brief Amici Curiae for the Petitioner in Maher Arar v John Ashcroft (at the US Supreme Court)
2009 Colombia Training & Capacity Building Human Tights Training Manual
Iraq / United Kingdom / ECtHR Submissions that analyse (1) the nature and extent of extra-territorial jurisdiction under the ECHR; (2) the rules and principles applicable where obligations under the ECHR conflict with other obligations under international law; and (3) the duty to comply with interim measures. View Intervention
ECtHR Submissions that address (1) the application of the ECHR to individuals outside the territories of the High Contracting Parties and (2) the requirement that High Contracting Parties comply with their obligations pursuant to Article 2 of the ECHR when carrying out armed operations abroad or in a situation of belligerent occupation. View Intervention
2008 Francophone, West Africa Update on the human rights situation in Francophone, West Africa (tracked between March 2008 and December 2008) View Report
Francophone, West Africa Update on the human rights situation in Francophone, West Africa (tracked between June 2007 and January 2008) View Report
Afghanistan Training and Capacity building Comparative Constitutional Training:
Dari | English | Pashto

Discrimination in Employment:
Dari | English | Pashto

Law and Development:
Dari | English | Pashto

Socio-Economic Rights and Development:
Dari | English | Pashto

Violence Against Women:
Dari | English | Pashto
Pakistan Amicus brief Amicus brief for the Pakistan Supreme Court in support of the Chief Justice
2007 Afghanistan Training and Capacity building Training Manual - Rights of Women and the Child:
Dari | English | Pashto
Pakistan Press Release Press release regarding the suspension of the rule of law in Pakistan and attacks on and extra-judicial detention of judges, lawyers and human rights activists
USA Amicus brief Amicus Curiae Brief for Omar Khadr
2006 USA Amicus brief Hamdan v Rumsfeld
Amicus brief Adella Chiminya Tachiona, on her own behalf and on behalf of her late husband Tapfuma Chiminya Tachiona, et al., v United States of America
Afghanistan Training and Capacity building Training Manual on the Rule of Law in Afghanistan
Dari | English | Pashto
Palestine Training and capacity building Training Manual for Palestinian lawyers
2005 Commonwealth Africa Training & Capacity Building Legal Tools for Commonwealth Africa: Application of the Death Penalty in Commonwealth Africa
Poland/OSCE Legal analysis Statement on the absolute prohibition of torture
Syria Training & Capacity Building Report: Training programmes in Syria
2004 Jamaica Training & Capacity Building Report on the Jamaican Death Row Pro-bono Project 2003/2004
Iran Visit with Iranian judiciary Report on Visit
Cameroon Training & capacity building Report Library Resource Project

Documents | PowerPoint Presentations
2003 Sierra Leone Training & Capacity Building Support to the Special Court: Library resource project
USA Amicus Brief Amicus Brief to the US Supreme Court on the Writ of Habeas Corpus
UK Legal Analysis "Diego Garcia. Footprint of freedom? Briefing paper on reports of unlawful detentions"
Trinidad & Tobago Legal Analysis Report on Criminal Justice System in Trinidad and Tobago
Sudan Training & Capacity Building Report on Sudan (library resources project)
2002 Sudan Training & Capacity Building Round table
Malawi Training & Capacity Building Report advocacy skills raining course

Library Project Report

2001 Malaysia Opinion Opinion
2000 Uganda Training & capacity Building Report
Botswana Training & capacity Building Report: Legal Aid and access to Justice
1999 Tanzania Training & capacity Building Report: Library Resource project
1998 Bahrain Legal Analysis The crisis of human right in Bahrain: The rule of law under threat"

Fact-finding Missions and Trial Observations

Year Place Title Type of Activity Particular Organisation
2009 Bahrain BHRC Report on Hearing Observation of Human Rights Defenders in Bahrain Trial Observation BHRC
2007 Turkey Reform and Regression: Freedom of the Media in Turkey Fact-finding KHRP
State Accountability? The Semdinli Trial Re-Hearing Trial Observation KHRP
Freedom of the Media in Turkey and the Killing of Hrant Dink Fact-finding KHRP
The Internally Displaced Kurds of Turkey: Ongoing issues of Responsibility, Redress and Resettlement Fact-finding KHRP
Publishers on Trial: Freedom of Expression in Turkey in the context of EU Accession Trial Observation KHRP
Refusing Refuge: Investigating the Treatment of Refugees in Turkey Fact-finding KHRP
2006 Columbia Report Fact-finding  
Turkey Indiscriminate use of force: violence in South-East Turkey Fact-finding KHRP
Human Rights Defenders in Turkey Fact-finding KHRP
Turkey on Trial: The Prosecutions of Orhan Pamuk & Other Writers Trial Observation KHRP
The Status of Internally Displaced Kurds in Turkey : Return and Compensation Rights Fact-finding KHRP
Indiscriminate Use of Force: Violence in Southeast Turkey Fact-finding KHRP
Human Rights Defenders in Turkey Fact-finding KHRP
Promoting Conflict – the Semdinli Bombing Trial Observation KHRP
Suppressing Academic Debate: The Turkish Penal Code Trial Observation KHRP
Effective Criminal Accountability? Extra-Judicial Killings on Trial Trial Observation KHRP
2005 Turkey Dissenting voices: Freedom of expression and association in Turkey Fact-finding KHRP
Turkey Recognition of linguistic minorities? Fact-finding KHRP
2004 Equatorial Guinea Amnesty International's Report Trial Observation Amnesty International
Turkey Thirteen Bullets: extra-judicial killings in Southeast Turkey Fact-finding KHRP
Iran Violations of the right to life of trade unionists in Colombia Fact-finding
Columbia Report on Visit Fact-finding
2001 Tunisia Report Trial Observation Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, KHRP, FIDH, OMCT, Union Internationale des Avocats
Mexico The Case of Digna Ochoa's Murder Trial Observation Lawyers' Rights Watch Association (LRWC)
2000 Kosovo Kosovo 2000: Justice, not Revenge Trial Observation  
1998 Israel/Palestine Human Rights in Palestine: what has happened since Oslo? Fact-finding  
1995 Nigeria Mission Report Trial Observation Article 19
1994 USA - Texas Death Penalty Report Fact-finding
Latvia Mission Report Fact-finding
Israel/Palestine Human Rights in a period of transition: the case of the occupied territories, Jerico and Gaza Strip Fact-finding
1993 Kenya Mission Report Fact-finding  
1992 Malawi Mission Report Fact-finding  

BHRC Annual/Biennial Reports

Year Report
2006-2007 BHRC Biennial Report 2006-07
2005 BHRC Annual Report 2005
2004 BHRC Annual Report 2004
2003 BHRC Annual Report 2003


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