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Influence

We pleiten voor een vrije en onafhankelijke advocatuur. We reizen naar de VN in Genève voor presentaties en we spreken vertegenwoordigers van regeringen (advocacy). Daar benadrukken we continu het belang van de UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, de internationale afspraken over de onafhankelijke rol van advocaten. Ook organiseren we bijeenkomsten voor Nederlandse advocaten, kantoren en ordes, om hen bewust te maken van de situatie van hun internationale collega’s. En via kanalen zoals social media delen we de verhalen van advocaten die door hun werk bedreigd of vervolgd worden.

Als onderdeel van ons “influence” programma voeren wij een actieve lobby voor wetten en beleid die een vrije en onafhankelijke beroepsuitoefening van de advocatuur nastreven, in overeenstemming met internationaal erkende principes en standaarden.

Dit doen wij door:

  • Het lobbyen van internationale instanties en hun mechanismen om te pleiten voor standaarden, resoluties en aanbevelingen die de onafhankelijkheid en veiligheid van advocaten versterken.
  • Het lobbyen van overheden om effectieve rechtsbescherming in te stellen, te implementeren en af te dwingen, en waar nodig, wetten te wijzigingen die de onafhankelijke beroepsuitoefening van de advocatuur.

Consultative status

Lawyers for Lawyers has been granted the special consultative status by the UN Economic and Social Council, also known as the ECOSOC status. The status gives us the right to participate in meetings of the Council, its functional commissions and other subsidiary bodies.

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Fact finding missions

Reports of missions in which independent experts present their findings about the information they have gathered and the research they have done into the facts about a particular situation or conflict, are valuable sources of information for the United Nations and other state institutions and organizations to be able to act.

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19 juli 2024

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.

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18 juli 2024

Joint UPR submission on Egypt

Egypt

On 16 July 2024, Lawyers for Lawyers, The Law Society of England and Wales, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) submitted a report for the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt. The next UPR of Egypt will

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17 juli 2024

Trial monitoring mission for the hearing in the trial against lawyers from Ezilenlerin Hukuk Bürosu

Türkiye

From 1 July 2024 to 4 July 2024, Lawyers for Lawyers representatives visited Turkey on a trial monitoring mission for a hearing in the trial against the lawyers from EHB (Ezilenlerin Hukuk Bürosu, law firm of the oppressed). Lawyers for

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16 juli 2024

Statement on the alleged enforced disappearance of Egyptian lawyer Ahmed Kassem

Egypt

Lawyers for Lawyers expresses concerns over the alleged enforced disappearance of Egyptian lawyer Ahmed Kassem since February 2024. According to the information received by Lawyers for Lawyers, Egyptian lawyer Ahmed Kassem was abducted from his home in Alexandria in August

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15 juli 2024

Joint oral statement on China to 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

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10 juli 2024

Interview with Ugandan Environmental Lawyers Aryampa Brighton and Kato Tumusiime

Uganda

Illustration: Joost Hölscher Aryampa Brighton is a Ugandan environmental lawyer and founder of the organization Youth for Green Communities. Kato Tumusiime is a lawyer at Youth for Green Communities and in  private practice, specializing in public interest litigation, environmental issues,

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9 juli 2024

Joint statement on the ninth anniversary of the 709 Crackdown

China

Today, 9 July 2024, marks the ninth anniversary of the ‘709 Crackdown’ on 9 July 2015, when over twenty lawyers, staffers, human rights defenders were arrested and nearly 300 lawyers and human rights defenders were summoned and questioned during the

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5 juli 2024

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

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