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Joint CCPR submission to UN Human Rights Committee on Türkiye 

Türkiye

On 16 September 2024, Lawyers for Lawyers, the Law Society of England and Wales (LSEW), the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), submitted a second report on Türkiye’s implementation of the International

Joint oral statement to Human Rights Council on Sudan

Sudan

On 10 September 2024 the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada delivered an oral statement during the interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner on the situation of lawyers in Sudan. The dialogue took place during

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

Occupied Crimea: human rights lawyer Aleksey Ladin disbarred

Russian Federation

Lawyers for Lawyers, alongside the undersigned international lawyers’ rights and human rights organisations, strongly condemns the Tyumen Regional Bar Council’s decision to disbar Russian human rights lawyer Aleksey Ladin in retaliation for his human rights work. We call on the

Joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Iran

On 16 July 2024, Lawyers for Lawyers, The Law Society of England and Wales (the Law Society) and Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) submitted a report for the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Joint oral statement on the adoption of China’s 4th UPR report at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council

China

Lawyers for Lawyers and several other organisations cosigned an oral statement on the adoption of China’s 4th UPR report at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The statement was delivered during the Interactive Dialogue on the adoption

Turkey: international legal community condemns Turkey’s arrest of ÇHD-lawyers Naim Eminoğlu and Doğa İncesu

Türkiye

In a joint statement, the undersigned bar associations, law societies, and lawyers’ rights organizations – representing tens of thousands of lawyers from around the globe – condemn in the strongest possible terms the detention of Progressive Lawyers Association (“ÇHD”) lawyers

Uzbekistan: International human rights organizations call on President Mirziyoyev to veto “undesirable” foreigners law

Uzbekistan

The undersigned international human rights organisations express profound alarm at the recent approval of a new law by Oliy Majilis, the lower chamber of Uzbekistan’s Parliament, concerning the legal status of foreign citizens and stateless individuals. These amendments represent a

Joint letter to Special Rapporteurs on Ugandan Legal Independence

Uganda

L4L and IBAHRI have written a joint letter to multiple UN Special Rapporteurs and ACHPR Special Rapporteurs (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights) to express concern regarding the Ugandan legal independence and to request an urgent appeal to the

Joint Statement over upcoming hearing in the case of M’hamed Hali’s arbitrary legal licence denial

Morocco

Lawyers for Lawyers, the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute, Front Line Defenders, the International Service for Human Rights and NOVACT express their concerns over the situation of Sahrawi human rights defender M`hamed Hali, who has been arbitrarily deprived of

Submission to UN Human Rights Committee – 4th period review of India

India

During its 141st session, from 1 July to 23 July 2024, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (‘the Committee’) will examine India’s implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR or Covenant), in light

Joint-Statement on UN experts’ call on government to stop targeting and retaliating against human rights lawyers

Egypt

In a joint-statement, Lawyers for Lawyers and 27 other organizations endorsed the letter by five UN Special Rapporteurs, published on 19 May 2024, addressing the Egyptian government about the targeting of human rights lawyers through counter-terrorism legislation, resulting in their