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BHRC publishes 2022-2023 Biennial Report

January 27, 2024
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales is pleased to publish its Biennial Report for 2022-2023, which highlights and spotlights the extraordinary work, activities, initiatives and advocacy of BHRC, our partners and our members in this two-year reporting period.   With a foreword by the immediate past Chair Stephen Cragg KC, Barrister at...

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 Partnership with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022

March 10, 2022
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) are proud to be a promoting partner of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022. The festival is taking place from 17-25 March 2022, with streaming available in the UK and Ireland and live screenings at the Barbican Centre in London. See the festival’s website...

UK: Joint statement of 20 Civil Society Organisations Support Historic Genocide Amendment to UK Trade Bill

February 9, 2021
Genocides and other mass atrocity crimes have claimed the lives of over 80 million victims globally since 1945. Today the very existence of the Rohingya in Myanmar and the Uyghur in China is threatened by ongoing violations including torture, rape and sexual violence, forced starvation, and the deprivation of liberty and dignity. We see the proposed...