On 27 October 2021, as part of the IBA Global Showcase 2021, BHRC Chair Schona Jolly participated in a panel event hosted by IBAHRI on law and lawyers under attack around the world. The event was chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Director of IBAHRI, and speakers included the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence...
On 11 October 2021, BHRC Executive Committee Member and EuroMed Rights Executive Committee Member Dr Theodora Christou moderated the opening session of an online discussion hosted by EuroMed Rights about the status of the anti-racist movement in the Euro-Mediterranean region and ways of collaboration with the human rights movement. The session was held in the...
On 2 September 2021, BHRC Chair, Schona Jolly QC, gave the opening keynote speech at an international conference at Newcastle University titled: “The Xinjiang Crisis: Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, Justice”. This was the first and largest international conference on Xinjiang since the issue has come to the wider attention of the world, bringing together scholars,...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) and the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) are pleased to host this timely webinar, with a panel of experts across law, civil society, the media and academia to consider the state of human rights, democracy and the rule of law in India...
BHRC has joined with international bar associations and human rights organisations to mark the first ever International Fair Trial Day and Ebru Timtik Away on 14 June 2021. The International Fair Trial Day was established along with the Ebru Timtik Award to advocate for the re-establishment of fair trial rights in those countries where fair...
On 8 June 2021, BHRC Chair Schona Jolly QC spoke at the New York City Bar’s event, Rule of Law & Authoritarian Ascendance: the Threat & the Legal, Policy & Societal Responses to It. The recording is now available here.
On 22 April 2021, BHRC Executive Committee Member Zimran Samuel contributed to LAWASIA’s panel event, Rule of Law, Justice & Democratic Rights in Sri Lanka. The recording is now available below. For more information about the event and to watch the keynote address by Geoffrey Robertson AO QC, please click here. The webinar was held...
Date: Tuesday, 8th December Location: Online via Zoom Webinar Time: 15.00 – 16.30 (GMT) | 18.00 – 19.30 (Turkey time) The last decade has seen a dramatic collapse of freedom of expression and the rule of law in Turkey. The shift from a parliamentary to a presidential system in 2017 during the state of emergency...
Nasrin Sotoudeh is renowned worldwide for her work as a lawyer in Iran. She has represented women’s rights defenders, religious minorities, and minors sentenced with the death penalty. Iranian authorities have tried to prevent her from carrying out her professional duties as a lawyer. Nasrin has had her licence to practise revoked and has been...
Crackdowns on civil society space through funding and registration restrictions, as well as proliferating forms of harassment, including through litigation, have become increasingly common throughout South Asia as a means to silence criticism. At a time when freedom of expression and association are under threat, when transparency and accountability and under pressure, the need for...
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