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5 augustus 2024

Numbed by bureaucracy – interview with Marina Kanta

By Trudeke Sillevis Smitt Overload, rejections, bureaucracy, but also small bright spots: Marina Kanta outlines the work of an asylum lawyer in Athens in a Zoom interview. What is it like to be an asylum lawyer in Athens? Marina Kanta

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16 april 2024

‘Flight to Lithuania’ — interview with Natalia Matskevich and Paulius Griciunas

Belarus

A new law has been passed in Lithuania which allows lawyers from outside the European Union to register as third-party lawyers in Lithuania. This legislative advance is of great symbolic importance according to Belarusian lawyer Natalia Matskevich. By Trudeke Sillevis

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8 maart 2023

Nursyahbani Katjasungkana: “we as lawyers need to learn more about gender and law”

Indonesia

Lawyers for Lawyers presents the “Highlighting the Work of Female Lawyers from Asia” interview series. This series highlights the important work of inspiring female lawyers from Asia. We address the general challenges these lawyers face as women in the male

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27 juli 2022

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

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13 juni 2022

In Uganda, those who give citizens a voice are the enemy

Taking environmental matters to court, of course. But also standing up for the rights of lawyers and the judiciary, so that they can do their work undisturbed by national governments. According to Ugandan environmental lawyer Dickens Kamugisha, this is the

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19 april 2022

From one day to the next, everything is at stake. Lawyer Iurii Grygorenko tells what is happening in Ukraine

Ukraine

“Excuse me, I’m still a little sleepy. Lots of air raid sirens last night.” Iurii Grygorenko, lawyer and member of the Ukrainian National Bar Association’s Committee for Lawyers Rights, shows up at 9 a.m. on 18 March 2022 for an

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7 april 2022

Siti Kasim: “Don’t be afraid to speak up to what you think is true”

Malaysia

Lawyers for Lawyers presents the “Highlighting the Work of Female Lawyers from Asia” interview series. This series will highlight the important work of inspiring female lawyers from Asia. We will address the general challenges these lawyers face as women in

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3 maart 2022

Interview Dennis Kwok: ‘Hong Kong has become a police state’

China

Everyone should subject their relations with Hong Kong and China to a risk analysis, says Dennis Kwok. The repression in Hong Kong is only a symptom of the new style of China’s politics. Peace of mind is hard to find

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12 januari 2022

United Arab Emirates: ‘not a country for business as usual’

United Arab Emirates

While the United Arab Emirates is making a good impression with EXPO 2020, lawyers and other human rights defenders are languishing in prison in the Gulf state. Of course, it looks neat, the website of World Expo 2020, which is

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15 december 2021

Belarusian lawyer Mikhail Kirilyuk: “We should never stop resisting”

Belarus

5 December was Lawyers’ Day in Belarus. However, the situation of lawyers in Belarus is extremely concerning. They are subject to harassment, intimidation, and improper interference as they try to perform their professional functions and the very independence of the

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17 juni 2021

Filipino lawyer Angelo Karlo Guillen: “Human rights is a very dangerous field”

Philippines

Text: Jan van Vegchel and Benthe Priester “Never in history was being a Filipino human rights lawyer as dangerous as it is today”, says Atty. Angelo Karlo Guillen, “AK” for friends. “I come from a family of human rights activists,

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9 augustus 2020

Veronica Koman: defending the West Papuan indigenous people of Indonesia

Indonesia

Today, the 9th of August, is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. On this day, Lawyers for Lawyers would like to take this opportunity to draw attention to the work of lawyers around the world who represent indigenous

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