BHRC supports the inaugural “International Fair Trial Day” and the Ebru Timtik Award
BHRC has joined with international bar associations and human rights organisations to mark the first ever International Fair Trial Day and Ebru Timtik Away on 14 June 2021. The International Fair Trial Day was established along with the Ebru Timtik Award to advocate...
EVENT: Rule of Law & Authoritarian Ascendance: the Threat & the Legal, Policy & Societal Responses to It
On 8 June 2021, BHRC Chair Schona Jolly QC spoke at the New York City Bar’s event, Rule of Law & Authoritarian Ascendance: the Threat & the Legal, Policy & Societal Responses to It. The recording is now available here.
EVENT: Rule of Law, Justice & Democratic Rights in Sri Lanka
On 22 April 2021, BHRC Executive Committee Member Zimran Samuel contributed to LAWASIA's panel event, Rule of Law, Justice & Democratic Rights in Sri Lanka. The recording is now available below. For more information about the event and to watch the keynote address...
EVENT: Turkey – Using international mechanisms to protect the right to freedom of expression: challenges and ways forward
Date: Tuesday, 8th December Location: Online via Zoom Webinar Time: 15.00 – 16.30 (GMT) | 18.00 – 19.30 (Turkey time) The last decade has seen a dramatic collapse of freedom of expression and the rule of law in Turkey. The shift from a parliamentary to a presidential...
BHRC co-sponsors film panel marking the release of the new documentary NASRIN (4 December @ 4.30pm)
Nasrin Sotoudeh is renowned worldwide for her work as a lawyer in Iran. She has represented women’s rights defenders, religious minorities, and minors sentenced with the death penalty. Iranian authorities have tried to prevent her from carrying out her professional...
EVENT: Shrinking Space: Civil Society under Threat in South Asia
Crackdowns on civil society space through funding and registration restrictions, as well as proliferating forms of harassment, including through litigation, have become increasingly common throughout South Asia as a means to silence criticism. At a time when freedom...
EVENT: Belarus on the Edge: Europe on the Brink? – Thursday 24 September 2020
https://youtu.be/RYLQtao2BEU Belarus on the Edge: Europe on the Brink? Thursday, 24th September 2020 at 6pm, via Zoom Chair: Baroness Helena Kennedy QC Speakers include (TBC): Elena Korosteleva, Miriam Lexmann, Boriss Cilevics, Laurynas Jonavičius, Pavel Kuryan, Julia...
EVENT: People, Power & Politics: Protecting and Promoting Human Rights in Belarus – Thursday 3 September 2020
For 26 years Alexandr Lukashenko has been widely referred to as “the last dictator of Europe”. Belarus, under Lukashenko’s tenure, is not a democratic society. As with all totalitarian regimes, power resides in Presidential authority. There is no meaningful...
WATCH: A Way Forward? Finding Justice for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbiiuj4aaRE&feature=youtu.be On Wednesday 22 July, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC), the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) and the APPG on Uyghurs were pleased to host an online panel event...
Bar Human Rights Committee and Hong Kong Watch hold private session with British and Hong Kong lawyers to discuss shared concerns over the National Security Law
Last week, Hong Kong Watch and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) held a closed-door Webinar bringing together prominent members of the British and Hong Kong legal and academic community, with parliamentarians from the...
Event: “1500 days behind bars” – The Case of Nedim Türfent and Judicial Harassment in Turkey
BHRC was pleased to take part in a virtual conference on 21 June 2020, hosted by the Media and Law Studies Association and PEN International, regarding Nedim Türfent, a Kurdish journalist who has now been imprisoned for 1,500 days on ‘freedom of expression’ charges....
BHRC partners with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2020 – Our Mothers (Nuestras Madres)
UPDATE: It has been announced that sadly the #HRWFF London has been cancelled due to Covid-19. Please read the statement here. The Bar Human Rights Committee has partnered with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival for the film "Our Mothers" (Nuestras...
