Annual Congress  of Dutch Bar Association 2011 - Special guest Alec Muchadehama
5 September 2011

Annual Congress of Dutch Bar Association 2011 – Special guest Alec Muchadehama

At the invitation of L4L, Alec Muchadehama, who received the first Lawyers for Lawyers Award on 15 April 2011, will attend the Annual Congress of the Dutch Bar Association in the Breda on 23 September. L4L will organize a workshop where Muchadehama will use the main theme of the congress, ‘Ethical dilemmas, without borders’, to tell about his work as a human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe.

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