This year, BHRC – in a project led by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and in cooperation...
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Turkey’s mass surveillance case: BHRC submits third party intervention to the UN Human Rights Committee
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales has submitted a third party intervention in the case of Gençay Bastimar...
Joint letter to President Erdoğan of Turkey on the mass arrest of lawyers in Ankara
Your Excellency, The undersigned organisations have learned of the arrest of approximately 55 lawyers and trainee-lawyers in Ankara. According to...
Joint statement with CCBE on the 30th anniversary of the UN Basic Principles on the role of lawyers
The Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) is pleased to join The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE)...
BHRC publishes the “Gezi Park” trial observation report in Turkish
BHRC has published the Turkish version of its trial observation report of the “Gezi Park” trial of sixteen leading civil society...
BHRC signs joint global call for UN mechanisms to monitor human rights violations by China
An open letter to: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, UN Member States We,...
USA: Sanctions against ICC officials “gravely undermines” the rule of law
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) condemns the designation and imposition of economic sanctions by the...
Colombia: Lawyers and judicial independence at risk
The Bar Human Rights Committee has written a joint letter to UN Special Rapporteurs and Inter-American Rapporteurs in response to...
EVENT: People, Power & Politics: Protecting and Promoting Human Rights in Belarus – Thursday 3 September 2020
For 26 years Alexandr Lukashenko has been widely referred to as “the last dictator of Europe”. Belarus, under Lukashenko’s tenure,...
Egypt: Veteran Human Rights Defender Bahey eldin Hassan sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
(Beirut, August 28, 2020) – On 25 August 2020, the Fifth “Terrorism Circuit” of the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Bahey...