The Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) is pleased to welcome Farida Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, for a special ‘In Conversation With’ virtual event on Zoom on Thursday 22 January 2026, from 12pm-1pm, ‘On education in crises and the crisis of education’. The discussion will be chaired by Dr Rachel Barnes...
The Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) and the Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA) are delighted to be co-hosting our third annual virtual seminar on Thursday 11 December 2025, ‘Advocacy & Strategy for Human Rights Defenders: Community, Communication & Collective Action’. Throughout 2025, human rights defenders have operated within an increasingly volatile and unpredictable global environment....
The international human rights community has expressed serious concern over challenges for the rule of law and the erosion of human rights law in Georgia, particularly surrounding the enjoyment of civil liberties, the suppression of dissent, and the independence of the judiciary. Judges, lawyers, human rights defenders and civil society more broadly have all been...
The Bar Human Rights Committee will be hosting a virtual seminar on Thursday 22 May 2025 (12:00-15:00 UK), spotlighting serious concerns for human rights and rule of law, protest rights / freedom of expression, and judicial independence amidst escalating attacks on judges, lawyers and protesters in Hong Kong, Turkey and most recently, the United States....
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) will host an online panel event on Thursday, 20 March 2025, at 1-2 pm (online). This inspiring roundtable discussion will centre on celebrating International Women’s Day 2025 and Women’s History Month, exploring this year’s theme of ‘Accelerating Action’ and what it means to female human rights...
Universal jurisdiction refers to the prosecution of individuals accused of committing atrocity crimes —regardless of where the crimes occurred or the nationality of the alleged perpetrators. This principle offers a broader avenue for holding individuals accountable for serious offences compared to traditional legal processes. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest among various...
Watch Now Skills training for early career practitioners is a core part of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC)’s learning and training advocacy track, bridging the widening gap between academic knowledge and real-world practice and offering perspective and experience exchange on various aspects of practice, including client interaction and interviewing, advanced advocacy techniques, and...
The Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) announces the launch of their new report titled ‘Court Observation of the Israeli Military Courts in the West Bank’ authored by Darryl Hutcheon, Natasha Jackson, and Sahar T. Sadoughi. The Report features the observations following Darryl Hutcheon and Natasha Jackson’s visit between January and February 2023 of the Israeli...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) will host a hybrid panel event on Monday, 18 November 2024, at 18:00 GMT (online). In-person registration will open at 17:30 GMT. This event marks the launch of our latest trial observation report, authored by Darryl Hutcheon (Matrix Chambers) and Natasha Jackson (Landmark Chambers),...
17 September 2024 | The Bar Human Rights Committee has today launched its latest Guantanamo trial observation report authored by Zimran Samuel MBE, BHRC Executive Committee member, following his visit on behalf of BHRC to the Base for the 49th set of pretrial hearings in the case of USA v Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et al –...
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