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Jordan Death Penalty: Letter of Concern

May 25, 2011
Letter of concern to King Abdullah of Jordan urging him to renounce the recommendation to activate the death penalty to address communal violence   I am writing on behalf of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC).  The BHRC is the international human rights arm of the Bar of England and Wales....

BHRC x ABA ROLI ‘Edge of Law’ Virtual Dialogue Series concludes with report and recommendations to be published in September 2022

September 5, 2022
Image Credit: catastrophe_OL / Shutterstock BHRC was proud to partner with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) on a series of four virtual dialogues held between November 2021-March 2022, through which BHRC and ABA ROLI sought to and succeeded in creating a regional platform where practitioners, academics, civil society actors and...

BHRC writes to the UK Foreign Secretary regarding the urgent and escalating situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory

May 13, 2021
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has today written to the UK Foreign Secretary addressing the urgent and escalating situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. We have copied the letter in full below: The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign,...