Joint call by international legal community: Protect Filipino lawyers!

Joint call by international legal community: Protect Filipino lawyers! Today, Bar Human Rights Committee together with 151 international and domestic bar associations, other lawyers’ organizations and legal professionals from 49 countries around the world called on the Government of the Philippines to take all necessary measures to stop the attacks against and extrajudicial killings of lawyers and to...

BHRC has published a training video on best practices and bad practice in interviewing vulnerable witnesses. The video uses a case study from BHRC’s Child Rights Training manuals (funded by UNICEF) to highlight how to achieve affective results and avoid common mistakes in interviewing children, particularly children who may have suffered trauma. The video also...

BHRC trial report on latest stage of Selahattin Demirtaş v Turkey confirms ECtHR finding that continued detention is politically motivated

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has published its interim report in the ongoing cases of Selahattin Demirtaş v Turkey and Veysel Ok v Turkey.  Mr Demirtaş is the well-known former member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Parliament) and Presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Turkey’s third largest political...