Appeal to the European Governments and the UN Security Council USA plans illegal military attack A war against Iraq that aims to abolish the Government or to destruct Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction would mean a grave violation of international law, in particular of Art. 39 of the Charter of the United Nations. It would …
Declaration of the ELDH on the demand of Turkey for membership in the EU Result of a fact finding mission in Turkey in April 2000 In the beginning of April this year 14 lawyers from France, Germany and Italy stayed in Turkey. Being invited by the local bar associations, by the lawyer’s magazine „Acic Sayfa“ …
Declaration of the EALDH on the situation in Turkish prisons We, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights, utterly condemn the military storming of prisons in Turkey. The storming of several prisons and the killing of a great number of unarmed prisoners violate the rule of law. The hunger strikers were …
Each day, in Palestine and in all the Arab villages of Israel, children, young people, men and women are dying under the fire of the Israeli army and settlers. Others are rounded up, and ‚disappear‘, are imprisoned and are tortured. This situation, which is in flagrant violation of international law, human rights and the most …
Appeal on the Practice of the Detention of Refugees. especially in the countries of the European Union The „Fortress Europe“ works almost perfectly. With the Schengen and Dublin agreements as well as national legal restrictions, the countries of the rich Europe have created a „cordon sanitaire“ against the migration and refugee movements at their borders …
Thesis for a Manifesto For an open Immigration Policy – Intercultural Integration – Active Protection of Minorities – Antidiscrimination – For the Protection of Politically Pursued Persons in the European Union I. Immigration Policies in the European Union Increasingly, the states of the European Union coordinate their asylum and immigration policies and have made …
Declaration concerning the use of the economic embargo The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights is deeply concerned about the increasingly frequent resort to the economic embargo as a measure of sanction by the United Nations Security Council, and about the concrete outcome of such embargoes when enforced. Although such embargoes …