On 2 September 2021, BHRC Chair, Schona Jolly QC, gave the opening keynote speech at an international conference at Newcastle University titled: “The Xinjiang Crisis: Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, Justice”. This was the first and largest international conference on Xinjiang since the issue has come to the wider attention of the world, bringing together scholars,...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) and the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) are pleased to host this timely webinar, with a panel of experts across law, civil society, the media and academia to consider the state of human rights, democracy and the rule of law in India...
17 August 2021 – The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has today published its interim observations from the trial of Santiago Uribe Vélez in Colombia. This report is published to support the justice process in Colombia and to keep awareness and focus upon the protection of judges, witnesses, and lawyers as...
The Bar Council, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, and the Law Society of England and Wales have issued a joint statement on the situation for legal professionals in Afghanistan, with particular concern for women judges in the country. “The Bar Council, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, and...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) is seeking an energetic and experienced administrator to support the Project Officer in delivering and facilitating the varied and expanding work of the organisation and its membership. We are looking for someone who is proactive and efficient with an eye for detail, who has experience...
BHRC has joined a group of 72 international non-governmental organizations and individuals calling on the Hong Kong government to drop the charge of “inciting unauthorized assembly” against Chow Hang-tung (鄒幸彤) and unconditionally release her. The text of the letter can be found below and can also be accessed here. Re. Prosecution of Tiananmen Vigil Organizer...
Tomorrow 20 July 2021, on the occasion of lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer’s 41st birthday, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release him and strike his name from the ‘’terrorist list.’’ Mohamed El-Baqer is a human rights lawyer and the founder and director of the Adalah Center for Rights and Freedoms....
28 June 2021 – The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, the Bar Human Rights Committee for England and Wales, the Coalition for Genocide Response, the Glocal Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, the International Federation for Human Rights, the International Service for Human Rights and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, delivered a...
23 June 2021 – Attacks against lawyers in the Philippines continue to take place and killings have reached a record high since the start of President Duterte’s administration five years ago. We, the undersigned organizations, express our deep concern over the attacks and the oppressive working environment lawyers still face in the Philippines. We call...
On 22 June 2021, PEN Norway released its final report as part of its Turkey Indictment Project. The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) provided two legal experts, Kevin Dent QC and Aska Fujita to draft two reports on the indictments in Osman Kavala and others and Cumhuriyet, which are contained in...
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