L4L NGO bijeenkomst met de VN High Commissioner on Human Rights
10 oktober 2012

L4L NGO bijeenkomst met de VN High Commissioner on Human Rights

Op dinsdag 2 oktober 2012 heeft Navi Pillay, High Commissioner on Human Rights van de VN een bezoek gebracht aan Nederland. Zij heeft daar de opening van nieuwe Mensenrechteninstituut (http://www.mensenrechten.nl/) bijgewoond. Aansluitend ging zij met Nederlandse NGO’s in gesprek.

Ook Adrie van de Streek, directeur van L4L was aanwezig bij dit gesprek, waarbij zij haar zorgen overbracht over de situatie van mensenrechtenadvocaten. Veel van deze advocaten zitten in de gevangenis of zijn Iran ontvlucht (zie bijvoorbeeld de biografieën van Houtan Kian, Abdolfattah Soltani en Nasrin Sotoudeh). Tijdens de NGO bijeenkomst was de situatie van Iraanse mensenrechtenadvocaten ook al door Pillay zelf aangekaart.

L4L beraadt zich over de te nemen acties voor Iraanse advocaten, en blijft hierbij contact houden en informatie uitwisselen met Navi Pillay.

 

 

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