On 6th March, Plan UK, BHRC and Doughty Street Chambers held a special screening of the ground breaking film India’s Daughter, which tells the story of the brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh in Delhi in 2012, exposing the attitudes to women which allowed it to happen. The film powerfully explores the wider social...
On 24th March, UN International Day for the Right to Truth, Kirsty Brimelow QC, BHRC Chair, took part in a CHRI debate on Sri Lanka on the question Will the delay of the OISL report help the victims? Other panellists included human rights barrister, Shivani Jegarajah, and award-winning film-maker, Callum Macrae. A podcast of the debate...
Professor Bill Bowring, visit to Kyrgyzstan on 9-13 March Notes for the British Embassy The focus of my visit was Freedom of Religious Belief (FORB in the FCO abbreviation). In this context I had meeting with representatives of international organisations, civil society, journalists, advocates, parliamentarians, and representatives of law enforcement and security bodies. I also...
Five human rights or ‘rights protecting’ weiquan lawyers from China spoke at a roundtable event hosted by the Bar Human Rights Committee and the Law Society on Thursday 5th March. One of the lawyers talked about the infamous Jiansanjiang incident which took place in Heilongjiang Province, northern China in March 2013. This case provoked worldwide...
BHRC has sent a trial observer to the Maldives to attend court hearings of the former President of the country and head of the opposition, Mohamed Nasheed. Mr Nasheed, a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, was the first democratically elected president of the Maldives. He lost power in controversial circumstances in February 2012. The BHRC has been...
On Monday 2nd March the Bar Human Rights Committee and the UK Bahá’í Community held a joint seminar to examine Iran’s failure to act in response to its 2010 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Speakers Payam Akhavan, Professor of International Law, and Iranian human rights lawyer, Shadi Sadr, explored the challenges for the Government of Iran...
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