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Sor.Rattanamanee Polkla: ‘We are lawyers, we are law-users, but we are also law-makers’

Thailand

With more than twenty years of practice in human rights and environmental matters, Thai lawyer Sor.Rattanamanee Polkla is deeply committed to environmental justice. With her organization, the Community Resource Centre Foundation (CRC), she provides legal aid to communities who face

Fiona Iliff: “It’s very timely to talk about environmental protection in Zimbabwe”

Zimbabwe

Illustration: Joost Hölscher “Zimbabwe has historically been lucky in the way certain environmental areas have been protected. Now, we see the threats against the environment rising and the work of environmental defenders and lawyers becoming riskier”. According to Fiona Iliff,

Charles Hector Fernandez: “Review of environmental legislation is urgently needed”

Malaysia

Malaysian environmental human rights lawyer Charles Hector Fernandez was one of the speakers at the Lawyers for Lawyers seminar on environmental justice and the work of environmental lawyers. Fernandez has been in the news several times in recent years, including

Recap seminar “Environmental Justice and the Work of Environmental Lawyers”

On 19 May 2022, Lawyers for Lawyers and the Amsterdam Bar Association organized the seminar “Environmental Justice and the Work of Environmental Lawyers”. The seminar was part of the 2022 edition of Justitia, but also inaugurated Lawyers for Lawyers latest

Speaker Tour with lawyer from Malaysia

Malaysia

To launch our one-year campaign focused on environmental lawyers, we invited environmental lawyer and human rights defender Charles Hector from Malaysia to the Netherlands for a Speaker Tour. As part of the Speaker Tour, Charles Hector spoke to colleagues lawyers

Uitnodiging: seminar “Milieurechtvaardigheid en het werk van internationale milieurechtadvocaten” – 19 mei

Lawyers for Lawyers en de Amsterdamse Orde van Advocaten nodigen u uit om deel te nemen aan het seminar ‘Milieurechtvaardigheid en het werk van internationale milieurechtadvocaten’ in de Posthoornkerk in Amsterdam op donderdag 19 mei 2022 van 15:30 – 17:30,