Global LGBT Rights: Opportunities and Challenges in Sri Lanka Date: Wednesday 4 May 2016 at 6pm Location: Mayer Brown, 201 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3AF Register for free entry to this event The UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group and the Bar Human Rights Committee have announced a special event to explore the situation for lesbian, gay, bisexual...

Following the Bar Human Rights Committee’s recent statement on the case of Mohamed al-Qiq, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK Government has issued a formal response. Mohamed al-Qiq is a Palestinian journalist who undertook a 94-day hunger strike in protest at his internment without trial under Israel’s administrative detention laws. These laws permit the arrest...