The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) is now accepting nominations for its Chair and Executive Committee until 11pm on Friday 28th November 2025. All current members of BHRC are entitled to stand for membership of the Executive Committee and/or to vote. This election cycle is for a two year term, running...
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...
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 Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales strongly condemns the decision of the US government to impose sanctions against Palestinian NGOs Al Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in the context of ICC-related submissions and advocacy. The work of these organisations and many others is...
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 endorses today’s statement by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) pledging its strong and unwavering solidarity with the American Bar Association (ABA) as it defends the foundational principles of justice, democracy, and the rule of law. We strongly denounce President Trump’s recent executive orders targeting prominent...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has today published its follow up to the 2023 report on judicial independence in Hong Kong SAR using the American Bar Association ROLI Toolkit & Methodology. The question of judicial independence has loomed large in Hong Kong in recent years and a critical analysis of the...
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...
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 –...
‘The rule of law in the UAE has been abused and the law is nothing but a tool of the system itself. These are nothing but show trials to demonstrate the power that the state has and how it can easily use the rule of law to legitimise that power.’ – Matthew Hedges ...
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