Nadia Murad Basee Taha is a courageous Yazidi woman and survivor of ISIS. She is visiting the UK to share her personal story and raise awareness of the plight of the Yazidi people. She is campaigning on behalf of the 3,500 Yazidi women and girls who are still prisoners of ISIS and has been nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for...
BHRC has sent a letter of concern to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Somaliland calling for the Court to suspend the execution of Mr. Abdullhai Ali and urgently review his case in light of evidence demonstrating serious mental illness. BHRC is deeply concerned that not only has Mr. Ali been denied the...
Constitution of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales 1. Name The name of the committee is the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“Bar Human Rights Committee” or “BHRC” for short). View the full constitution here
On Wednesday 2 December BHRC hosted an event as part of the 'Human Rights in Collaboration' series in the lead up to International Human Rights Day.
It is with great sadness that the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) and the Democratic Progress Institute (DPI) note the fatal shooting of Tahir Elçi, President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, in southeast Turkey on Saturday 28th November 2015. Mr Elçi was a fearless human rights defender and consistently principled advocate...
The Protection of International Human Rights: A barrister's role This event is an opportunity to hear more about the work of the BHRC, meet barristers on BHRC's Executive, and find out how you can get involved in pro bono international human rights work.
BHRC Chair, Kirsty Brimelow QC, is featured in a short film shown at the Thomson Reuters Foundations’s Trust Women Conference on 17-18 November 2015 where she speaks on the issue of women and extremism. Trust Women is committed to finding real solutions to empower women and to fight slavery worldwide. The annual event brings together...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) calls for the immediate suspension of the executions of Mr. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, a former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, and Mr. Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a former leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist party. Both trials were in flagrant breach of international fair trial standards....
BHRC has joined other human rights organisations in writing to the UK Home Secretary Theresa May to call for the UK to rejoin the EU Genocide Network. The UK was a founding member of the network set up to ensure a close cooperation between states in investigating and prosecuting the crime of genocide, crimes against...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) expresses serious concern at the arbitrary detention of the Egyptian journalist and leading human rights defender, Mr Hossam Bahgat. Although we welcome his release, announced on Tuesday, the unclear circumstances of his detention, interrogation and the charges brought against him, continue to raise concerns. Mr...
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