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 vice-chair Ruby Sandhu joined the EuroMed Human Rights Network Group on economic, cultural and social rights in Tunis 27-29th September 2019. SIHRG is currently fielding a team of trial observers to monitor a mass trial in Turkey. We hope to publish a report in the New Year. Director Lionel Blackman and committee member Anne-Marie Irwin staged two days of training in trial observation and strategic litigation for human rights defenders in Istanbul in November 2019. SIHRG is preparing a wide consultation on the Group's objects; to be circulated shortly. Recent activities:
Other Recent events: see archives. | UN Wire latest: 4th December 2019 : CLICK HERE (earlier editions also) UN Civil Society Update 4th December 2019 Training Guide on Reporting to the UN Treaty Bodies ( Part 1 - Part 2 ) Reporters Without Borders Reports - World Press Freedom Index, Europe overview, Turkey, China and more EHRAC Bulletins: Summer 2019 Bulletin Spring 2019 Autumn 2019ALL MEMBERS CAN SUBMIT NEW IDEAS FOR PROJECTS ONLINE......................Click here
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. |