Vacature stage communicatie
Gemiddeld 16 uur/wk, per 1 september 2019 Wil jij je communicatie skills inzetten om het verschil maken te voor bedreigde advocaten die opkomen voor de rechten van anderen? En wil je dat doen in een jong, dynamisch en bevlogen team met projecten met een internationale focus? Lees dan verder! Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L) komt op […]
Vacature stage ondersteunen focusgroepen
Gemiddeld 8 uur/wk, per 1 september 2019 Wil jij het verschil maken voor bedreigde advocaten die opkomen voor de rechten van anderen? Wil jij leren hoe een NGO werkt en een netwerk opbouwen met advocaten van kleine en grote kantoren? En wil je dat doen in een jong, dynamisch en bevlogen team met projecten met […]
Joint letter on 18 sentenced and imprisoned HHB and ÇHD lawyers
In a joint letter, Lawyers for Lawyers, together with together with 23 other signatories consisting of lawyers’ organizations and bar associations, expressed concerns about the arbitrary detention and long-term imprisonment of 18 lawyers from Halkın Hukuk Bürosu (HHB, the Peoples’ Law Office) and Çağdaş Hukukçular Derneği (ÇHD, the Progressive Lawyers Association) in violation of fair […]
Invitation Lawyers for Lawyers Award Ceremony 2019
Presenting the 2019 Laureate of the Lawyers for Lawyers Award: Selçuk Kozağaçlı Human rights lawyer from Turkey The Award Ceremony will take place on 23 May 2019 in Amsterdam. Register now to attend! The Award ceremony will be opened by Mr. Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Minister of Justice and Security. Sirikan Charoensiri (2017 Laureate) will present the […]
AvdR voor L4L Rally op 7 september
Kruip achter het stuur voor bedreigde collega’s Tekst: L4L/Johan van Uffelen Je maakt er geen vuile handen mee. Want daar zit je als advocaat natuurlijk niet op te wachten. Je doet er wél interessante, informele contacten mee op. En, het belangrijkste, je betuigt steun aan collega’s die in het nauw zitten. Doe mee met de […]
L4L and FTW monitor trial of lawyer Can Tombul
On 18 April, representatives of Lawyers for Lawyers and Fair Trial Watch attended the third hearing in the case of lawyer Can Tombul in Istanbul. Nardy Desloover, ex-president of the Rotterdam Bar Association, who represented the Dutch Bar Associations, attended the hearing as well. During the hearing, all requests made by the defence of lawyer […]
Training “Effective advocacy at UN Human Rights Mechanisms”
The Institute for Law and Public Policy (ILPP) has invited Lawyers for Lawyers to jointly give a training course in Moscow concerning “Effective advocacy at the United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms”. The training will take place from 19-20 April 2019. Human rights lawyers and civil society activists working in Russia are invited to participate in […]
Selçuk Kozağaçlı to receive L4L Award 2019
Selçuk Kozağaçlı, a human rights lawyer from Turkey, will receive the Lawyers for Lawyers Award 2019. By selecting Selçuk Kozağaçlı, the expert jury “wants to applaud the unwavering dedication of both Selçuk Kozağaçlı and his colleagues to defending the basic human rights of their clients.” Furthermore, with this award, “the jury also honours the many Turkish […]
Letter on behalf of Justus Ijeoma
In a letter to the Nigerian authorities Lawyers for Lawyers expressed concern about the maltreatment of lawyer Justus Ijeoma by the police. Justus Ijeoma is a Nigerian human rights lawyer and the executive director of the International Human Rights and Equity Defense Foundation (I-REF). His work especially focuses on police violence. By providing free legal services […]
Joint letter on conviction Nasrin Sotoudeh
On 30 December 2018, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes after being tried in absentia and without access to a legal representative of her own choosing. In a joint letter Lawyers for Lawyers and the Law Society of England & Wales expressed their concern about the conviction of […]
Concluding observations UN Human Rights Committee on Viet Nam
In March 2019, the UN Human Rights Committee reviewed Viet Nam’s compliance with its international human rights obligations. Last week, the Committee issued the concluding observations of this review. In the concluding observations the Committee expressed its concern “about allegations of violations of fair trial guarantees, especially of human rights defenders, political activists, and individuals […]
House of Aleksandr Peredruk’s parents searched
On 2 April 2019, the apartment of Aleksandr Peredruk’s parents in Murmansk was searched by the police in relation to an investigation of a suicide bomb attack in Arkhangelsk in 2018. It is feared that this investigation might be an attempt to link him to the event. This was reported by Frontline Defenders. Aleksandr Peredruk […]
Artists standing up for Turkish lawyers
They may burn your robes… Text: Johan van Uffelen they may put your hands in chains but they can’t lock your heart they may set fire to your robes but they fear your angels These are two lines from a poem by Anne Vegter, the former Dutch national poet, written in support of three persecuted Turkish […]
Statement on situation of lawyers in Turkey
On this day, 5 April 2019 – celebrated as Lawyers’ Day in Turkey – 34 organizations, including Lawyers for Lawyers, take the opportunity to strongly condemn the ongoing crackdown against lawyers in Turkey. View the full statement here. Following the failed coup d’état of 15 July 2016, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency […]
UPR submission Kazakhstan
On 28 March 2019, Lawyers for Lawyers submitted a report for the Universal Periodic Review of Kazakhstan. This review will take place in October/November 2019. In the report, Lawyers for Lawyers highlighted that the Kazakh authorities do not always uphold the necessary guarantees for the proper functioning of the legal profession in practice, as set out in the […]
Özlem, Sezin, Gülhan
In November 2018, Anne Vegter, the former Dutch national poet, and photographer Bianca Sistermans traveled to Istanbul at the invitation of Lawyers for Lawyers, to join a trial monitoring mission. Anne Vegter wrote a poem in support of three persecuted Turkish lawyers. Bianca Sistermans made black-and-white portraits of the three lawyers. And together they made […]
