In the Media – Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales

In the Media News Partners Statements and LettersOctober 16, 2026

BHRC Stands in Solidarity with Advocate Boniface Mwabukusi and Supports Calls to Protect the Independence of the Legal Profession in Tanzania

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) stands in solidarity with Advocate Boniface Mwabukusi, President of the Tanganyika Law Society (TLS), and with members of the Tanzanian legal profession facing increasing challenges to the independence of their profession. BHRC supports the recently issued joint solidarity statement by a NGO partners concerning disciplinary...

Amicus Curiae Briefs In the Media News PublicationsNovember 12, 2025

BHRC Files Third-Party Intervention in European Court of Human Rights Case: Brachveli and Romanadze v Georgia

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has filed a third-party intervention in the case of Brachveli and Romanadze v Georgia, currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights. The case concerns the administrative arrest, detention, and fining of two protestors who participated in a peaceful demonstration in Tbilisi on 2...

Amicus Curiae Briefs In the Media Publications Statements and LettersJuly 25, 2025

BHRC files submission in Advisory Proceedings at Inter American Court of Human Rights

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales filed a submission with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concerning the advisory proceedings on the question of democracy in the Inter-American human rights system. The advisory proceedings were commenced at the request of the State of Guatemala. BHRC’s submission sought to highlight jurisprudence from the...

Amicus Curiae Briefs In the Media News Statements and LettersMarch 7, 2025

BHRC welcomes Appeals Decision in United States of America v Al Nashiri

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales issues a Press Release on the Appeals Decision of the Court of Military Commissions Review in United States of America v Al Nashiri. Following a trial observation in the case of United States of America v Al-Nashiri, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales...

BHRC In Brief In the Media News Trial ObservationsJune 19, 2024

BHRC Blog In Brief: Reflections from the ongoing 9/11 pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

The detention and trial regime at US naval base Guantanamo Bay remains shrouded in secrecy and hugely controversial internationally. Of the 779 people detained there since January 2002, 740 have been transferred elsewhere with 30 remaining. 9 detainees have died in...

In the Media NewsAugust 2, 2023

BHRC Welcomed into the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

The BHRC Chair and Executive Committee are delighted to announce that BHRC was officially voted into the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at a special session in New York on 25 July 2023. As the independent, autonomous human rights arm of the Bar Council, the admittance of BHRC to ECOSOC is a strong...

In the Media News Projects ReportsApril 26, 2022

BHRC Trial Observation Report-Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Further to a highly welcomed decision by the US to approve BHRC as one of only two non-US NGOs with International Observer status, BHRC has for many years kept a watching brief on the use of the detention facility at the United States Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and procedural developments in the Military Commissions...

In the MediaNovember 25, 2021

BIANET: ‘Right to protest is a fundamental human right’

23 November 2021 – The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales and ARTICLE 19 have presented an expert opinion on international human rights law and the right to protest regarding the Saturday Mothers/People case. Read the article in Bianet here. .