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BHRC makes formal request to ICC Chief Prosecutor for a ‘preventative statement’ on the conflict in Israel and Palestine

October 14, 2023

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales yesterday made a formal written request to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan KC, asking him for a formal ‘preventative statement’ regarding the continuing escalation of the conflict in Israel and Palestine. The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales (‘BHRC’)...

News Reports

Milestones in International Criminal Justice: The ICC & Palestine – Meeting Summary

December 2, 2014

‘This is a summary of an event held by the International Law Programme at Chatham House in association with Doughty Street Chambers.1 The meeting examined the implications of the UN General Assembly’s decision to accord Palestine the status of non-member observer state in 2012, issues concerning Palestine’s prospective accession to the Rome Statute, and the...

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Human Rights in Palestine: what has happened since Oslo?

June 15, 1998

Human Rights in Palestine: what has happened since Oslo? Read the full fact-finding report here.

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BHRC collaborates with the ICJP on a new report on Israel’s 2022 rules on entry of foreign nationals into the West Bank

July 20, 2023

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) and BHRC, supported by the Right to Enter campaign, have collaborated on a new report on Israel’s recent rules on the entry and residence of foreign nationals in the West Bank, published this week. Israel’s new rules on the entry and residence of foreign nationals in the...

News Statements and Letters

STATEMENT: Designation of Palestinian NGOs and civil society groups as ‘terrorist organisations’

November 9, 2021

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) joins many international bodies and organisations in expressing its grave concern regarding the decision taken by the Israeli Defence Minister on 19 October to designate a number of prominent Palestinian NGOs as ‘terrorist organisations’ pursuant to the Israeli Counter-Terrorism Law of 2016. The United Nations...

News Statements and Letters

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,...

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UN Side Event: “State of emergency and attacks to the legal profession in Turkey”

June 14, 2018

The Bar Human Rights Committee, Law Society and IBA Human Rights Institue co-organised a UN side event at the Palais des Nations in Geneva to discuss the challenges that the Turkish legal profession has been facing since the failed coup in July 2016. The event took place on 21 June 2018 at 15:00-16:00 in Room XXV...

News Statements and Letters

Bar Human Rights Committee condemns increasing attacks against Palestinian human rights defenders

May 20, 2016

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has today issued a statement expressing serious concern over ongoing threats and attacks directed at Palestinian human rights defenders. BHRC highlights a pattern of death threats, harassment and violence aimed at curtailing the work of Palestinian human rights defenders and activists. This includes death threats issued...

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British Lawyers and Professors urge ICC to initiate investigation into crimes being committed in the Gaza Strip

August 5, 2014

Public international law and criminal law Q.C.s and Professors based in Britain join with the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales to urge the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to initiate a preliminary investigation into crimes being committed in the Gaza Strip. In response to the extreme gravity of the situation...