EVENTS ARCHIVE: Wednesday 28th October 2009 - special report on Malaysia from returning solicitor Shubhaa Srinavasan and Brad Adams of Human Rights Watch at BPP Red Lion St Holborn London 6.30pm Room 4.7 Wednesday 23rd September 2009 - SIHRG speaker meeting featured the Chief of Operations of the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions MIKE KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE PROSECUTION OF CRIME Click HERE for full speech Public Interest Lawyers, Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) and the Law Society presented the inaugural Baha Mousa Annual Memorial Lecture "The UK's Abu Ghraib? Coercive Interrogation Techniques in Iraq" Professor William Schabas Held at 7pm on Tuesday 30 June 2009 At Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Northcliffe House, 28 Tudor Street, London , EC4Y 0AY MORE DETAILS of the EVENT HERE A successful inaugural event. Full report to follow soon and PIL's Iraq Report is available on the MORE DETAILS page
Wednesday 24th June 2009 6.30pm BPP Law School Andrew Scallan, Director of Electoral Administration and Boundaries, Electoral Commission speaking on "International Observations and Elections"
Andrew has over 25 years experience in electoral administration. Before joining the Electoral Commission in 2007 he worked for Manchester City Council. He is a founder member of the Association of Electoral Administrators and a former joint editor of Schofield's 'Election Law'. Andrew is responsible for the Observer scheme operated by the Electoral Commission and has undertaken observation and pre election assessments in a number of countries.
68-70 Red Lion Street, London
Wednesday 17th June 2009 6.30pm
Iqbal Haider - The current human rights situation in Pakistan. Co-Chairperson Human Rights Commission, former Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and former Attorney General BPP Law School 68-70 Red Lion Street, London
WEDNESDAY 29TH APRIL 6.30PM
MICHAEL ELLMAN SLAVERY IN MALI BPP RED LION STREET HOLBORN LONDON
Have we got some old news for you.....Click here for the full advice of Lord Goldsmith on the legality of the invasion of Iraq
AGM and Alan Hart was held Wednesday 28th January 2009 at The Chancery Room The Law Society Hall click here for agenda and motion and link to Chair's 2008 Annual Report click here for details of new committee
Alan Hart - Journalist and Author - Middle-East Expert Palestine and Israel - No Law, No Peace Click here for associated press release and full speech
Wednesday 26th November 2008 6.30pm BPP Law School - Room 4.4 68-70 Red Lion Street, London
Mark Stephens Solicitor
Renowned international expert
Media Law and Human Rights ..........................read report HERE
Wednesday 22nd October 2008 6.30pm BPP Law School 68-70 Red Lion Street, London
Michael Mansfield QC
Leading criminal barrister and fair trial expert - renowned for his extemporaneous discourses :
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE............read report HERE
Wednesday 24th September 2008 6.30pm BPP Law School 68-70 Red Lion Street, London Margarette Macaulay She has been appointed as a Judge on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in June 2006 and sits on the Court in Costa Rica in ordinary sessions and in other member States in Extraordinary Sessions. “The Inter-American Court of Human Rights” Click here to read more....................
Friday, 26 September 2008 4.00pm – 8.00pm The United Nations Human Rights Enforcement Machinery Dr Nazila Ghanea and Smita Shah Addleshaw Goddard (Manchester office) 100 Barbirolli Square, Manchester M2 3AB
Wednesday 23rd July 2008 6.30pm BPP Law School 68-70 Red Lion Street, London
Nigel Fawkes The Director of Wateraid, an NGO that has been singularly successful in their work over the past 25 years in improving fresh water and sanitation. "How Wateraid provides fresh water and sanitation to developing countries, and in particular commenting on their work in Nepal and Tanzania with the aim to raise their living standards and their health". Nigel has been involved with Wateraid for two years. He has ridden a bicycle with two friends from Lands End to John o Groats in August 2006 raising £16,000 for them ( see www.nepaliwater.com). He is a Director of a Natural Health Products company and chairman of a new UK registered charity known as Malaika Kids. www.malaika-kids.org.uk. Malaika Kids UK is an initiative among a group of former MBA students of London Business School. This company is developing a new model for helping orphans in Tanzania. They have a programme to find extended family members to foster orphans, and a new Community Village in which those for whom no relatives can be found will grow up. For this they have a 45 acre site, on which they intend to grow as much of their our own food as possible. With the assistance and advice from Wateraid they have drilled their first well to 80m and have excellent water.
Wednesday 25th June 2008 6.30pm BPP Law School JUNE VENTERS QC In 2006 became the first woman Practising Solicitor to be appointed Queen’s Counsel, and she specialises in Crime and Family law. "Social Justice/Access to Justice and the changes that are occurring and the impact upon members of our society".
Wednesday 28th May 2008
Amy Barrow is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Manchester. Her doctoral research examines gender mainstreaming policies in a peace and security context focusing on UN Security Council Resolution 1325: women, peace and security (UNSCR 1325). In January/February 2007 she conducted fieldwork in Kathmandu, Nepal with women activists lobbying for the implementation of UNSCR 1325. Amy is Coordinator of the Women, Peace and Security working group, UK WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom UK section). Amy has represented UK WILPF UK at the 4th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva and at the 52nd Commission on the Status of Women at the UN in New York. Amy will examine the challenges of implementing UNSCR 1325 drawing on perspectives from the field in Nepal and other conflict/postconflict contexts.
Event 10th April 2008 On 10th April, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights (the Declaration), SIHRG had the honour of hosting an engaging, informative and emotive meeting with guest speakers Vanessa Redgrave and Serheul Benhassen (the President of the International Human Rights Federation (FIDH)). The meeting was held at the Keyworth Centre Lambeth with the generous support of the London South Bank University. Benhassen highlighted the work of various human rights defenders around the world: she congratulated the people in the Democratic Republic of Congo who are lobbying for the prevalence of mass rape in that country to be classified as a war crime; she trumpeted the courage of Iranian women who have been arrested, whipped and beaten for petitioning for the recognition of women’s rights; she also denounced the recent detention of Hu Ja in China who was sentenced to 3 ½ years imprisonment for writing an article demanding the Chinese authorities to change its policy towards HIV/Aids sufferers. Benhassen also stressed the need for further recognition of Economic, Cultural and Social Rights. FIDH are one of the many organisations pressuring the international community to give these rights equal recognition under the law so that they can be fully enforced and protected. Vanessa Redgrave, captured the audience’s attention with her impassioned reflection on the raison d’etre of the Declaration and its meaning, 60 years on. Redgrave highlighted the importance of learning from history so as to avoid past atrocities from happening again. Redgrave revered the principles set out in the Preamble of the Declaration: the universality of human rights and the role of the rule of law as the guardian of humanity. Redgrave stated that the principles echoed with ‘the shrieks and groans of the people destroyed by the barbarities of Fascism’ for they remind us of what can happen when human rights are forgotten. Amongst other things Redgrave lamented the troubling news that President Bush had vetoed a Congressional resolution banning torture. She condemned the veto as flying in the face of not only the Convention against Torture (of which the USA is a signatory) but also the US Constitution. Redgrave stated that this reiterated the contempt the current US administration has for human rights. Redgrave also questioned the New Security Strategy recently announced by Gordon Brown as, she pointed out, it only makes one passing reference to the UN. Redgrave concluded that this is hardly restoring the founding organisation of the Declaration or respect for human rights at the heart of global decision making and sets a worrying precedent for the century ahead. Report by George Zachary Malaysia Thursday 27th March 2008 6.30pm The Law Society 113 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1PL The Solicitors’ International Human Rights Group, in association with The Law Society, and Society of Asian Lawyers, invite you to a meeting regarding discrimination faced by the minority Indian population of Malaysia. There will be a talk by Brad Adams, Human Rights Watch, and members of the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) will also be present to provide first hand accounts of the situation.
November 2007 Art and Human Rights Event - SIHRG and the Arts Diversity Forum St Ethelbergers The Art and Law of Human Rights, organised for SIHRG by Zoë Bryanston-Cross, which attracted a legal and non-legal audience. An exhibition of works engaging with human rights themes by artists from the Diversity Arts Forum were displayed in the atmospheric St Ethelburga's, a former church in Bishopsgate. Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers gave a passionate speech on human rights violations carried out by the British Army in Iraq.
October 26th 2007
Training event
The Human Rights Enforcement Mechanisms of the United Nations An afternoon training event presented by the Solicitors' International Human Rights Group at the offices of Clifford Chance solicitors Coleman Street London on Wednesday 24th October 2007. The main speaker was Dr Nazila Ghanea solicitor and lecturer of Oxford University with Smita Shah barrister of Garden Court Chambers London. Four CPD points were available at modest prices. The event was very well attended and we are indebted to Clifford Chance's generous support for the afternoon. The training session was followed by the usual monthly SIHRG meeting and Dr Ghanea enlightened her audience on the plight of the Bahai faith adherents in Iran and Egypt. Plans are a foot to repeat the training event in the Spring 2008 in Manchester. If you are interested in attending please contact our administrator now for your interest to be noted.
July 2007 - Widowhood in Conflict and Post-Conflict Scenarios
Summary of the Talk by Margaret Owen Widowhood in conflict and post conflict situations is such an important topic. However it is one of the most neglected of the gender inequality issues and is often missed out by Human Rights law. The most important thing to be aware of is that there cannot ever really be democracy or peace in areas that are or have been affected by conflict until women in these areas are regarded as equals. In Iraq, 35% of all adult women in Iraq are widows or their husbands are missing and this is a conservative estimate. Widowhood is a social death. Women who are widowed are often shunned by their own communities and by other women as well. Even when you have in place legislation that says widows should have equal rights to inheritance, the right not to be evicted from the matrimonial home, the right to return, the right to keep land, for instance, there is still very little implementation of these laws. In many countries the word ‘widow’ is synonymous with ‘whore’ and other words. Which illustrates the situation that these women face. It also illustrates that widowhood is viewed as a taboo subject that is also surrounded by the myth that these women will be looked after by their families. Enormous numbers of widows are also subject to horrific rituals. Ritual cleansing for instance, is where the women are forced to have sex after the death of their husband, to bring out the spirits of their husband. In Tanzania, it was reported that 400 elderly women, all widows, were stoned to death as witches. Women who are widows are routinely beaten and raped. In Rwanda, and other African nations, lets not forget that women who were made widows were also routinely infected with HIV after soldiers used rape as a weapon to help ‘ethnically cleanse.’ It is often not realised that enormous numbers of widows are very young, and are often left with children so that they become the sole carers, at a very young age, of large families. The cycle of widowhood has in fact been exacerbated because sole carers usually find themselves in a situation of poverty. There is no employment, often it isn’t safe for these women to leave their homes now that they are outside the protection of their husbands or they are stuck in refugee camps with no means to get out, as is evident in Darfur for instance. These women will sometimes sell their female children as wives to old men. These men then die and these young children are also left as widows and sole carers. If you neglect widowhood and the causes of their poverty you are causing more poverty and stretching out the suffering and the Human Rights Violations into the next generation. There is a huge escalation of domestic violence during conflict. Also during conflict, drugs and arms smuggling hugely endangers the lives of women. Immigration problems also arise. The UN convention on refugees needs up-dating as the guidelines are not helpful. Margaret’s organisation often gets asked things like “what would be the situation of a Nigerian widow, who would refuse to be ‘inherited’ by her brother.” The organisation has to emphasise that these women must be given Asylum, because if they are sent home they will almost certainly be killed. It is important that these issues are addressed within peace conferences that occur during and after conflict. Voices must be heard during the peace building process because there is not much chance of addressing it after those processes have commenced. UN security council resolution 1325 – was the first security council resolution to focus on gender issues, and said that all actors should look at the impact of the conflict upon women. It is unacceptable that in some countries you have to wait 12 to 20 years to get a declaration that their husband is dead. It is even more unacceptable that in some countries there isn’t even the right for women to ever go to court to get such a declaration. As Lord Bingham said, the rule of law must be accessible, it must be clear and it must be predictable. It must uphold the rule of human rights. But a rule of law cannot be implemented properly post conflict unless there is consultation with all the groups in that community. It certainly cannot be done without consulting women. There was not a single woman on the Iraqi drafting commission of Article 41. It is difficult to perceive any improvement in the lives of women now and what they faced under Saddam Hussein. Electoral processes in post conflict countries should not even begin before any kind of security is put in place for women and the widows that are a result of that conflict. Widows For Peace through Democracy has a model charter, which can be forwarded to any party who needs it. Report by Katie Gwynne
Professor Van Bueren Professor of International Human Rights Law in Queen Mary, University of London 'Human Rights, The Next Stage - Incorporating Socio-Economic Rights' Professor Geraldine Van Bueren is prfessor of International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary, University of London and Visiting Fellow at Kellog College, Oxford. She is an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers. From 2002 to 2006, Professor Van Bueren held a second concurrent human rights chair at the University of Cape Town. She is currently working on a project for UNESCO on how law can be used constructively to help combat poverty Events - Thursday 24 May 2007
Morgane Landel Solicitor Eberto Diaz Montes President of FENSUARGO
Colombian Lawyer Solidarity - fundraising for the next phase Morgane Landel, a SIHRG member, returns from a 3 month Justice for Colombia & SIHRG volunteer project in Bogotá, Colombia working with human rights defenders in Colombia.
Events - Friday 27 April 2007
Arnold Tsunga Director for Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Guglethu Moyo Lawyer for the International Bar Association working on Southern African Issues. To Raise Support And Funds for 'Protecting Lawyers in Zimbabwe' To highlight the plight of lawyers and the justice system in the current political climate, SIHRG in collaboration with the Bar Human Rights Committee is pleased to welcome Arnold Tsunga & Gugulethu Moyo to provide their insight into the Zimbabwean legal system and their work in campaigning for Zimbabwe. Arnold Tsunga is the Director for Zimbabwe Lawyer s for Human Rights and Secretary of the Zimbabwe Law Society and Gugulethu Moyo is a lawyer for the International Bar Association working on Southern African Issues & was previously an in house lawyer for the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe. The event will be chaired by Andrew Hall QC, barrister at Doughty Street Chambers who is also the Chairman of the Criminal Bar Association
Thursday 26 April 2007
CMDPDH documentary: "Dual Injustice - Feminicide and Torture in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua" Amnesty Cinema, Amnesty International UK Attendance is free, donations welcome, but places are limited. The SIHRG Americas Group in collaboration with Amnesty International is very pleased to welcome Fabián Sánchez Matus, Lawyer and Director of La Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, A.C . (CMDPDH) (the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights) to the UK to speak at the showing of the CMDPDH documentary "Dual Injustice - Feminicide and Torture in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua"
Events - Wednesday 25 April 2007
Paul Garlick QC 'Trial monitoring in Eastern Europe and Asia - The protection of suspects and accused persons from human rights violations' 6.30pm, BPP Law School (Room 6.6) Appointed Queen's Counsel in 1996, Paul Garlick QC has specialised in extradition, international criminal justice and European Convention on Human Rights cases. He has recently been involved in a number of high profile extradition cases including representing the former directors of the Russian "UKOS" oil company. Since 2004 Paul Garlick has been deeply involved in trial monitoring projects for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and human rights training for the Council of Europe and the European Commission in Turkey, Albania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In 2005 he was one of International Judges in the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Events – Wednesday 28th March 2007
Abdelsalam Hassan Sudanese Human Rights Lawyer 'The ICC & Sudan' 6.30pm, BPP Law School (Room 5.7) Abdelsalam Hassan is a Sudanese lawyer who has lived in the UK for 17 years. He works to further human rights in Sudan and has worked for a number of human rights organisations in London including Human Rights Watch, The Sudan Human Rights Organisation and Justice Africa. Mr Hassan currently works with REDRESS on issues relating to fighting impunity and torture in Sudan
Events - Wednesday 28th February 2007
Carla Ferstman, Director, Redress ‘The Role of Lawyers (and Legal NGOs) In The Process of Securing International Human Rights Norms’ 6.30pm, BPP Law School (Room 6.6) Carla Ferstman is the Director of REDRESS, whose mission is to rebuild the lives and livelihoods of torture survivors and their families. REDRESS also aims to eradicate the practice of torture worldwide. Carla is the informal coordinator of the NGO Coalition for an International Criminal Court's Victims Rights Working Group, and a member of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Expert Panel on Torture and is called to the Bar in British Columbia, Canada. Prior to joining REDRESS, she held a variety of international human rights positions including work with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda and as Executive Legal Advisor of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees (CRPC) Read full report HERE
Events - Wednesday 24th January 2007
Gareth Peirce ‘Internationally Protected Rights: How They Have Been Destroyed’ 6.30pm, BPP Law School (Room 6.6) Gareth Peirce, Senior Partner of Birnberg, Peirce and Partners has championed human rights for many years. The Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, David Shayler, Abu Qatada ('Europe's alleged Al-Qaeda Ambassador'), Judith Ward and the family of Jean Charles de Menezes are but a few of her most high profile clients. Gareth Peirce currently defends a number of terrorist suspects including Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi, a detainee at Guantanamo Bay.
Read full report HERE
Events - Wednesday 22nd November 2006
Richard Gifford 6:30pm, BPP Law School (Room 6.6), Richard Gifford Solicitor of Sheridans will speak on the Chagos Islanders A little known episode in the history of British rule overseas was the decision taken in the 1960s to order the eviction of an entire population from their island homes in the Indian Ocean. Justified at the time by claims of "good governance" in reality it was to make way for the American's establishment of the air base at Diego Garcia. Come and hear about the unique legal battle fought in recent years to redress this wrong.
Events - Wednesday 25th October 2006
Shami Chakrabati 6:30pm, BPP Law School (Lecture Room 1), Shami Chakrabati Director of Liberty : "Asylum" - The new dirty word"
Events - Wednesday 27th September 2006
Sarah Stephen-Smith 6:30pm, BPP Law School (Room 6.6), Sarah Stephen-Smith of the Poppy Project will speak on human trafficking Sarah Stephen-Smith is Counter Trafficking Development Worker at the Poppy Project, which provides support and housing for women trafficked into prostitution. It is part of Eaves Housing For Women, a charity formed in 1977 under the orginal name of Homeless Action. The Poppy Project is funded by the Home Office and the Association of Local Government (ALG) and it combines direct services, support and advocacy with research, development and lobbying, so bridging the gaps between theory, practice and the need to influence strategy. Sarah Stephen-Smith will discuss the Project's work looking at key statistics in the context of the relevant international and European instruments, and those areas in which further work by SIHRG members is particularly required.
Events - Wednesday 26th July 2006
Katie Ghose "Beyond the Courtroom: making your mark as a campaigning lawyer" 6.30pm, BPP Law School, (Room 5.7), Katie Ghose is a barrister and Director of the British Institute of Human Rights. She has extensive campaigns and political experience, having worked in campaigns and public affairs at Age Concern England (2001 - 05), as an MP's researcher (1992 - 1994), for Citizens Advice as their parliamentary adviser (1994 - 1995), and as Campaign Manager for the Child Accident Prevention Trust (1999 - 2000). She has also worked as a freelance consultant, providing lectures and training to City law firms and charities on parliamentary procedures and lobbying techniques. Katie was a member of the taskforce which advised the Government on the establishment of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights. She is also a Commissioner on the National Asylum Commission.
Events - Monday 24th July 2006
Carlos Mauricio Speaker Meeting - SIHRG Americas Group in Association with Redress 6:30pm, BPP Law School (Room 6.6), Carlos Mauricio a Salvadorean national, was tortured during the early 1980s at the hands of El Salvador's repressive military. Carlos will speak about his experiences in El Salvador and recent landmark US court case where an award for damages of $54 million was upheld against Salvadorean Generals found responsible for torture".
Events - Wednesday 28th June 2006
Professor Robert McCorquodale of the University of Nottingham will speak on the role of non-state actors in international human rights law. Professor McCorquodale is Professor of International Law and Human Rights, and Head of School, at the School of Law, University of Nottingham. Previously he was a Fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge and at the Australian National University. Before embarking on an academic career he worked as a lawyer with leading law firms in Sydney and London. Robert's teaching and research interests are in the areas of international law and human rights law. He has provided advice to governments, corporations, international organisations, non-governmental organisations and peoples concerning human rights issues, including advising on the drafting of new constitutions and conducting human rights training courses.
Events - Wednesday 24th May 2006
Dr Fareda Banda More Alike Than Unalike: Women's rights in Africa and the UK 6.30pm, BPP Law School, (Room 3.7), Dr Fareda Banda of the School of Oriental and African Studies will speak on Women and Human Rights in Africa. Dr Banda is Lecturer in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and editor of the Journal of African Law (Cambridge University Press). Her research focuses on women's access to human rights, and she is a specialist on women's rights in Zimbabwe, especially their position in customary law. Her book "Women, Law and Human Rights: An African Perspective" came out with Hart Publishing in 2005. Dr Banda is also interested on the position of women and minorities in the legal profession in the UK and in 2000 she and Kate Malleson (LSE) carried out the Department for Constitutional Affairs' study on the effects of patronage and discrimination in the legal profession, looking at factors affecting decisions to apply for silk and judicial office by women and members of minority groups.
Events - Wednesday 26th April 2006
Tayab Ali Representation of those suspected of committing terrorist offences and the treatment of terrorist suspects in the UK and abroad 6.30pm, BPP Law School, (Room 3.7), Tayab Ali is Head of McCormacks Solicitor's 'Specialist Crimes Unit', where he defends, advises and lectures in terrorism and related cases. He will speak about the difficulty of representing terrorist suspects at police stations in the UK, the increase in police powers, and public apathy towards understanding the issues. He will also speak about the detention, interrogation and mistreatment of suspects abroad and detail some of the allegations of Western governments' complicity into these types of cases.
Events - Wednesday 22nd March 2006
Justice in Conflict - Tensions Between Conflict Resolution and Human Rights Protection Speaker: Barney Afako 6:30pm, BPP Law School, (Room 3.7), 68-70 Red Lion Street, London Barney Afako is a member of the Ugandan Bar. Over the last 20 years, he has practised law in Uganda, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. He has supported conflict resolution, access to justice and human rights interventions in Eastern and Southern Africa. He is a keen follower of the work of the interventions of the International Criminal Court in Africa. Barney is also a part-time Immigration Judge in the United Kingdom. The talk will canvas the dilemmas of transitional justice in countries in the throes of, or emerging from, conflict situations, using predominantly African examples. It will also be eligible for CPD points.
Read more HERE
Events - Wednesday 22nd February 2006
Andrew Stevens Kenyan death penalty cases and Mel James of the Law Society 6.30pm, BPP Law School, This talk is eligible for 1 CPD hour with the Law Society. Mel James will talk about the Law Society (England & Wales) International sub-committee
Events - Wednesday 25th January 2006
Peter Carter QC, Chairman of the Bar Human Rights Committee 6.30pm, BPP Law School, (Room 5.7), Peter Carter QC is Chairman of the Bar Human Rights Committee, In addition to his practice in the UK, he undertakes pro bono work on behalf of death row prisoners overseas, appearing in the Privy Council, preparing submissions to international tribunals and amicus briefs in US courts and elsewhere. In recent years he has spent an increasing amount of time conducting seminars and addressing international bodies on human rights aspects of domestic and international criminal law. CPD Points: 1 At this meeting, there will also be elections for members of the management committee of SIHRG, as part of the Group's AGM.
Events - Wednesday 23rd November 2005
Philippe Sands QC, Professor in International Law, UCL An Analysis of the Consequences of British and US Foreign Policy on the Global International Order 6.30pm, Bates, Wells & Braithwaite, Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre of International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. Called to the Bar in 1985 and appointed Silk in 2003, he has also been a member of the Irish Bar since 2003. His publications include From Nuremberg to The Hague (CUP, 2003), Principles of International Environmental Law (CUP, 2003), and Lawless World (Allen Lane, 2005).
Events - Saturday 15th October 2005
Justice Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court of South Africa 3.00pm, BPP Law School, Room 6.6, Justice Sachs will speak on Terrorism and Human Rights. Justice Sachs was a leading figure in the anti-apartheid struggle and is a key architect of the post-apartheid constitution for South Africa. He was appointed to the Constitutional Court by former President Nelson Mandela. His books include The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs and Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Events - Wednesday 28th September 2005
Peter Ashman, FCO Human Rights Policy Committee 6.30pm, Bates, Wells & Braithwaite, The talk will focus on how the FCO is working on promoting the rule of law as part of the FCO Human Rights Strategy 2005-2008. Peter Ashman is also keen to gauge the Group's views on the rule of law toolkit that the FCO is preparing for use by British Embassies and High Commissions. Mr Ashman would also like to exchange views on effective ways that lawyers in the UK can support human rights defenders and organisations overseas, and situations in which the FCO may be able to co-operate with groups like SIHRG.
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