Welcome to the website of the Solicitors International Human Rights Group. Our aim is to engage solicitors and other lawyers in the promotion of international human rights ......read more.
Upcoming activities:
SIHRG is launching online groups to talk about and taken initiatives on topical areas of interest to members and supporters throughout the world. Click here to register your interest.
Co-Vid 19 related travel restrictions eased enough to allow the SIHRG team of trial observers to continue to monitor a mass trial in Turkey. The trial concluded 11th January 2021 with over 200 convictions. SIHRG will begin preparing its report when the written verdicts are published.
Other Recent events: see archives.
UN Wire latest: 1st March 2021 : CLICK HERE
UN Civil Society Update 3rd March 2021
Training Guide on Reporting to the UN Treaty Bodies ( Part 1 - Part 2 )
Reporters Without Borders Reports - Coronavirus and press freedom - World Press Freedom Index, Europe overview, Turkey, China and more. All important 19th December 2019 Journalism Trust Initiative HERE.
EHRAC Bulletins: Summer 2019 Bulletin Spring 2019 Autumn 2019 Winter 2019/20
ALL MEMBERS CAN SUBMIT NEW IDEAS FOR PROJECTS ONLINE......................Click here
NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING to be arranged. CONTACT ADMIN IF YOU HAVE MATTERS TO RAISE
MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ARTICLES FOR PUBLICATION ON OUR WEB SITE AT ANYTIME - SEND TO ADMIN
Members may develop thematic working groups that operate within SIHRG with considerable autonomy. Click HERE for more information.
Alastair Logan OBE Chair of SIHRG delivered a summary of the Guildford Four case and law reform in this broadcast created at the request of Citizens Watch St Petersburg and promoted on their Russian website.
For non-lawyer activists we have published a "Straightforward Guide for Criminal Trial Observers". We are prepared to publish editions adapted to any country and to permit the Guide's translation to any language. Just contact us via the contacts page
SIHRG has a comprehensive suite of online Guides to international human rights law.
CLICK HERE to access the Guides, now for free.