In 2011 and 2012 JKM undertook research in Mumbai to investigate the right to education and why less than half of children in India between the ages of six and fourteen attend school. The aim of this report was to investigate why so few children benefit from the education system and to establish what can...
BHRC report to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Female Genital Mutilation (12 February 2014). Click here to access the report. Read the full set of written evidence submitted to the Home Affairs Committee Media coverage from The Times.
The Bar Council and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) release today, 4th February 2014, a joint statement voicing concerns about the recent demonstrations in Kiev and other regions of Ukraine. See the full statement here.
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) releases today, 9th December 2013, a statement calling for an immediate stay to the execution of Abdul Quader Mollah, a senior leader in the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami Party, who was convicted of war crimes by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). See the statement here
BHRC Chair, Kirsty Brimelow QC, speaks on report by Newsnight about atrocities committed in Sri Lanka. See the BBC Newsnight report (7th November 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nldVJ6PKUrw&feature=youtu.be
The nomination was made by Edward Fitzgerald CBE QC. Find details of the multi-year pro bono project implemented by BHRC and led by BHRC chair Kirsty Brimelow QC, in partnership with Unicef – Nigeria. Find the entire list of nominees for this year’s award. Results will be announced on the 2nd November at the 2013 Annual Bar Conference. ...
The Alliance for Lawyers at Risk and the BHRC invite you to the event ‘Neutrality in the Colombian Conflict: The role of Peace Communities’. 19th November at 6.15 – 8.30pm Middle Temple, Middle Temple Lane, EC4Y 9AT Download leaflet
The BHRC releases today, 14th October 2013, a statement expressing concern at the annulment of the first round of presidential elections in the Maldives. See the statement here.
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) releases today, 26th September 2013, a statement expressing grave concern about the retroactive application of legislation used to impose the death sentence on Abdul Quader Mollah, a senior leader in the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami Party, convicted of war crimes by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) of...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has today, 20th September, sent a letter to the President of the Republic of Botswana expressing concern about the case of Mr. Gordon Bennett, a barrister instructed to act on behalf of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Mr. Bennett was accused of...
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