BHRC publishes event report on Parliamentary session “Hiding in Plain Sight-the extraordinary scale of human rights violations in Xinjiang, China”

On Wednesday 26th June 2019, the Bar Human Rights Committee in conjunction with the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group, held an important panel discussion in Parliament to consider the treatment of Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China and to explore how to hold China to account for human rights violations there. It...

BHRC joins International Coalition of Legal Organisations raising concern for Turkey’s lawyers and judges

BHRC is part of an international coalition of legal organisations who have submitted a joint Stakeholder Submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review for Turkey. Alongside BHRC, the coalition includes the Law Society of England & Wales; International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute; Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales; Conseil...

Hong Kong’s “ill conceived” extradition proposals “fundamentally imperil the operation of the rule of law” say leading international law organisations.

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, the Law Society of England & Wales, the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, the Defence Extradition Lawyer’s Forum, the International Forum of Extradition Specialists,  and  Fair Trials  have co-authored observations on the human...

BHRC sends joint submission to Special Rapporteur on Judges and Lawyers regarding the situation of lawyers in Turkey

The Bar Human Rights Committee alongside the Law Society of England and Wales and the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute have sent a joint submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers concerning the independence of the legal profession in Turkey. The submission raised concern for the fair trial rights of lawyers...

BHRC has released its fact-finding report, “Breakdown: the dismantling of the Calais “Jungle” and of the promises to its unaccompanied children”.  BHRC Chair Kirsty Brimelow QC said: “The unaccompanied children of Calais have faced horror, both in their home countries and in France, in “the Jungle” camp. Nearly a year later, the horror continues as children...

An independent report by Geoffrey Robertson QC into the proceedings of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Bangladesh was published today. The report is the first of its kind and concludes that the Tribunal’s Procedures fall seriously short of international standards. See the report The views within the report do not necessarily reflect those of the BHRC....