INTERNET CONVERSATIONS WITH OVERSEAS HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS
In the New Year we will have internet conversations with :
1. Two lawyers from BELARUS - TBA
2. Esra Kirimli - TURKEY - 23rd February 2022 7pm UK time
CANCELLED
An attorney who acted in the mass trial of Adnan Aktar's religious movement that was observed by SIHRG 2019-2021.
She graduated from the Law School of İstanbul University in 1993. She obtained her practicing certificate in December 1995. After working in several law offices internationally operating in Istanbul between 1993 and 1998, she served as a Legal Counsel for Telecommunications Group of Companies operating in a Holding company system starting from 1998.
She completed her LLM degree in International Banking and Finance Law at the Law School of Boston University in 2000. Her final thesis was on Public/Private Sector Partnerships. She still continues her doctoral studies in tax law at the Fiscal Law Department of İstanbul University. She continues her professional career and work as the founder partner at the Kırımlı & Partners Law Firm. Her vast experience and practice focuses on Tax Law, Administrative Law, Criminal Law, and Intellectual and Industrial Property Law. One of her works entitled International Safety Management (ISM) Code was published in the Maritime Law Journal. She is registered with the İstanbul Bar Association.
3. Melinda Janki - Guyana 14th March 2022 7pm ( 3pm Guyana time)
An international lawyer leading litigation against oil/gas production offshore Guyana. She acts for the claimants in the first climate change constitutional case in the region. The case is also the biggest - at stake is more than 4bn tons of greenhouse emissions. In a previous case Melinda successfully cut ExxonMobil's environmental permits down from 23 years to 5 years.
Melinda has worked in more than 20 countries, advising companies, governments and international financial institutions including the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, DfID (British Government), KfW (German Government), USAID (American Government). She is an expert on indigenous rights and has advised indigenous/tribal peoples around the world. She is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. She has held numerous positions including treasurer of SIHRG, Vice-President of the Guyana Bar Association, member of the steering committee of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. She is the executive director of the Justice Institute Guyana.
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Previous conversations:
Thursday 9th December 1.00pm (6.30pm India time)
Byatha N Jagadeesha - India
Jagadeesha is a human rights, criminal defence lawyer. He is a real trailblazer having challenged corruption, violence and discrimination based on identity religion, caste and gender. He has participated as a lawyer in fact-finding missions. His work is well-recognised and he was appointed as the honorary prosecutor for corruption cases in Bangalore (Karnataka). He has also served as the legal adviser for GreenPeace India guiding them through a particularly tumultuous political time. His early legal career started as a human rights defender for the Narmada Bachhao Andolan (NBA) movement led by Medha Patkar and subsequently he worked as criminal defense lawyer for Alternative Law Forum.
Wednesday 17th November 6:00pm (8:00pm Palestine time)
Dr Hassan Jabareen -Israel / Palestine
Hassan is the founder of Adalah. He has served as Adalah’s general and legal director since its establishment in 1996. He holds an LLB in Law and a BA in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University, an LLM in International Human Rights from American University Washington College of Law, and a PhD in Law from Hebrew University. Over the last 25 years, he has litigated scores of landmark constitutional law cases regarding Palestinian citizens of Israel, including the Palestinian leadership, and international humanitarian law cases concerning Palestinians in the 1967 Occupied Territory before the Israeli Supreme Court. Also, since 1998, he has been an adjunct lecturer for a course that he initiated on the legal status of the Arab minority in Israel and other law courses in the Faculties of Law at Tel Aviv, Hebrew, and Haifa Universities. He has received several awards for outstanding public interest lawyering and top human rights law prizes. He has also published several academic articles in edited books and law reviews on the citizenship status of the Palestinians. Hassan was a Yale World Fellow, a Senior Robina Law Fellow at Yale Law School, and a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.
We are inviting lawyers from a range of countries to speak to our members via "Microsoft Teams" internet video technology.
The format is short and simple.
1. Speaker addresses the meeting uninterrupted for 15 minutes on a theme of his or her choice relating to human rights challenges faced in his or her country, particularly impacting on the work or lives of lawyers.
2. Questions and Answers between the speaker and audience for about 25 minutes
3. Closing remarks from the speaker and meeting chair for about 5 minutes
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Thursday 28th October 11:00am (1:00pm Moscow time) :
Sergei Golubok - Russia
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