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BHRC publishes 2022-2023 Biennial Report

January 27, 2024

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales is pleased to publish its Biennial Report for 2022-2023, which highlights and spotlights the extraordinary work, activities, initiatives and advocacy of BHRC, our partners and our members in this two-year reporting period. With a foreword by the immediate past Chair Stephen Cragg KC, Barrister at...

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BHRC proud to support HRW Film Festival as Presenting Partner

March 10, 2023

BHRC is once again proud to support the London Human Rights Watch Film Festival taking place March 16 – 26 at the Barbican Cinema (with all films also available to watch online across the UK + Ireland on their streaming site). BHRC will be the Presenting Partner for: Delikado | The Opening Night film for...

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Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2021

January 21, 2021

On 24 January the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) is proud to be taking part in the 11th annual Day of the Endangered Lawyer (DOTEL). I am an Executive Committee member of BHRC, and the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH, in 21 countries), of which I am President, has been a co-organiser...

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BHRC co-sponsors film panel marking the release of the new documentary NASRIN (4 December @ 4.30pm)

November 23, 2020

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 duties as a lawyer. Nasrin has had her licence to practise revoked and has been...

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September 1, 2020

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Lawyers Associations join forces to raise concern for the rule of law and the legal profession in Turkey for the Day of the Endangered Lawyer

January 24, 2019

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has joined ten other Bar Associations, Law Societies and Legal Organisations in a joint declaration concerning the breakdown of the rule of law and serious threats against the independence of Judges, Lawyers, and Prosecutors in Turkey. The declaration marks the 9th annual Day of the Endangered...

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The Bar Human Right Committee mourns the loss of Asma Jahangir

February 12, 2018

The Bar Human Right Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) pays tribute to its friend and colleague, international human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir. Asma suffered from cardiac arrest on Sunday 11th February 2018. She passed away in hospital in Lahore the same day. Asma was a fearless advocate who dedicated her life to the rule...

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BHRC issues joint statement on Day of the Endangered Lawyer

January 24, 2018

BHRC and the Bar Council have issued a joint statement for the 8th Day of the Endangered Lawyer, standing in solidarity beside lawyers associations in Europe and around the world, with those lawyers in Egypt who face persecution in furtherance of the protection of the rule of law. The joint statement highlights the persecution lawyers in Egypt face,...

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BHRC publishes report on police violence and access to justice in Calais migrant camps

August 2, 2016

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has today published a report on migrant camps at Calais and Grande-Synthe in France, highlighting allegations of police violence, police failure to protect residents within the camps, and a lack of access to justice. BHRC representatives visited the Jungle and Grande-Synthe camps in March 2016, meeting...

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BHRC express concern and shock over attacks on Camp Liberty

July 22, 2016

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) have today issued a statement expressing their deep concern and shock at the 4 July rocket attack on Camp Liberty in Baghdad, which is home to large numbers of Iranian exiles. This attack led to some 50 injuries and material damage, according to residents. Five injured...

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