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...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) and ARTICLE 19 are pleased to announce that they will be hosting a second round of four free remote training sessions in the effective use and practice of international human rights law and mechanisms to reinforce protections for refugee and migrant populations in Turkey. By...
As I approach the end of my term as Chair of BHRC, I write to share what an immense privilege it has been to lead this organisation, and its committed Executive Committee, members and staff through a turbulent period for human rights across the world. As the pandemic has devastated individual lives, so too...
Last month, BHRC in partnership with the Legal Policy Research Center, a non-political, independent research institute founded by a group of Kazakhstani lawyers in April 2008. delivered a second series of training webinars to lawyers in Kazakhstan on using international human rights law, in particular the ICCPR which Kazakhstan has ratified. We covered relevant and...
On 24 January the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) is proud to be taking part in the 11th annual Day of the Endangered Lawyer (DOTEL). I am an Executive Committee member of BHRC, and the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH, in 21 countries), of which I am President, has been a co-organiser...
Written by: Işıl Aral, Daniel Bramhall, Andrew Stevens, Joseph Lynch-Watson Introduction Osman Kavala has been a prominent figure in Turkish civil society since the 1980s, founding a plethora of cultural and arts-based initiatives. Along with this, he is well known for his role at the head of the Kavala Group companies following his attendance...
The BHRC makes public a Summary of Proceedings of the event “Spotlight on the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal” that took place on Monday 18 March 2013 at the Houses of Parliament, Lords’ Committee Room 4. Please note that this is not a verbatim transcript of the proceedings, but a summarised note. The meeting was hosted by Lord Avebury and...
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