On 29 September 2014, the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) and the International Senior Lawyers Project UK (ISLP-UK) wrote to the Minister of Peace and Reconstruction in Nepal to express their concerns about the Truth and Reconciliation Act 2014. Whilst the Act seeks to move forward the process of setting up a Truth and Reconciliation...

Public international law and criminal law Q.C.s and Professors based in Britain join with the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales to urge the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to initiate a preliminary investigation into crimes being committed in the Gaza Strip. In response to the extreme gravity of the situation...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has released today, 21st July 2014, a statement expressing its condemnation of the ongoing killings of civilians in Israel’s latest military assault against the Gaza Strip. It calls upon the international community to take urgent action to bring about an immediate, viable and durable ceasefire....

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) lends its support to an open letter to the Egyptian Ambassador to the United Kingdom signed by 182 practising members of the Bar of England and Wales. The letter expresses dismay at the recent sentencing of the Al Jazeera journalists, Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has released today, 24th June 2014, a statement expressing grave concern at the verdicts, and accompanying sentences, handed down to foreign and national journalists in Egypt yesterday. In the statement, the BHRC calls for the immediate release of all of the journalists and for the State to take urgent...

The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) release today, 20th May 2014, a statement of concern about recent human rights breaches arising out of blasphemy legislation in Pakistan. The statement can be accessed directly here.