Agenda of the 1st International Fair Trial Day and Ebru Timtik Award
14 June 2021 15.00 – 17.15 CEST N.B. – This event will be accessible both for participants and viewers: Participants: can join the event with access to the live translation (English/Turkish) via the following link: http://bit.ly/iftdwebinar will be able to ask questions during the Q&A Viewers can follow the event (without live translation) via the…
International Memorial Event for Ebru Timtik: A life dedicated to the struggle – 5 April 2021, 18.30 pm (CEST) – 19.30 pm (TR)
On the Day of Lawyers (Turkey), the international legal community gather together to commemorate Ebru Timtik who passed away after a 238-days hunger strike with the demand of a fair trial for all people who are suffering under the ongoing injustice in Turkey. Ebru Timtik will never be forgotten and as lawyers, we will never…
International Fair Trial Day and the Ebru Timtik Award – Hold the Date – 14 June, 2021
The right to a fair trial has long been recognised by the international community as a fundamental human right. Without a fair trial every individual risks becoming the victim of a miscarriage of justice. Either as an innocent suspect wrongly convicted, or as a victim unable to secure justice for a wrong perpetrated against them….
DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER 2021 – AZERBAIJAN
The DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER 2021 focusses on Azerbaijan. Protests and seminars will be organised in solidarity with human rights lawyers in Azerbaijan. The DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER is commemorated each year on 24 January. On that Day, 24 January 1977 four trade union lawyers and an employee were murdered in their office…
Conference invitation – Re-Thinking Labour Law in the Digitalization Era – register now
European Labour Law Conference Conference organised by: the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), the European Lawyers Network for Workers (ELW) Network and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), with the support of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights ELDH 15 and 16 October 2020 The conference will take the form of…
Persecution of Lawyers in India: building a network of international solidarity – video conference – 23 April 2020
Since the 2014 elections in India criminalisation of dissent and free expression on charges of sedition or terrorism has increased meteorically. Lawyers and democratic rights activists defending such cases are increasingly targeted on the same grounds. At a time when many prisoners are being released during the COVID-19 pandemic, these political prisoners remain inside and…
Political trials against lawyers and political activists in Turkey and other countries
hier Termin und Ort eintragen ELDH will try to send observers to the following trials. These trials are observed by many lawyers from different organisations in Europe. Colleagues who wish to participate in the trial observation should get into contact with ELDH: ELDH Guide on Trial Observations UN Basic principles on the role of…
DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER – 24 January 2020 – PAKISTAN
The tenth annual Day of the Endangered Lawyer will focus on Pakistan, on 24 January 2020 The basic report on the situation of lawyers in Pakistan + download – Basic report on the situation of lawyers in Pakistan The Petition – Day of the Endangered Lawyer (available on 24 January 2020) + download…
2000 – 2009
- 27 – 29 November 2009, Bonn, Germany
Expert conference
“The socalled antiterror struggle using the example of Kurds –practice in the European legal sphere”
Organizer: Azadi, MAF-DAD
Coorganizer: ELDH
Follow up shall be organized (task force on Interpol; legal defence group, group to battle the criminalization of Kurds) - 16th and 17th October 2009, Paris
Labour Law in Europe
Organizer: EDL European Democratic Lawyers, Progress Lawyers Network, SAF
Coorganizer: ELDH - 26th and 27th June 2009, Berlin
Peace through law
Organized by IALANA
Participation ELDH - 17thJanuary 2009, Paris
European Criminal Justice,
together with AFJD - September 2008, Bristol
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ARMED CONFLICT
Organized by - March 2008, Ankara
THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS – FAILURE OR SUCCESS ?; - March 2008
PRISONS IN EUROPE, , Pisa
(EDL Conference, support of ELDH) - February 2008
CHARTE DES PRINCIPES POUR UNE AUTRE EUROPE,
(Participation of ELDH) - Mai 2007, Freiburg :
Labour and Justice in a globalized world
organized by BAKJ, with support of ELDH - June 2007, Hannover
The EU-Constitutional Treaty – Critiques and Alternatives
Organized by ELDH together with attac-Germany - 20 and 21 October 2006 in Barcelona
The Boarder of Europe – Zones without Rights
Organized by EDL, supported by ELDH - 6 May 2006 in Berlin
Social Rights in Europe – Provocation for Neoliberalism
Organized by ELDH - May 2005 in London
Suspect Communities: The ‘War on Terror’ in Europe - February 2005
Arwarding of Hans-Litten-Price to Lea Tsemel and Mohammad Na’amneh
(together with the German Association of Democratic Lawyers, VDJ) - September 2004 in Istanbul
State and Religion in Europe - April 2004 in Paris
“A democratic Constitution for Europe” - 2003 in Geneva
“Independence of the Public Prosecutor” - 2003 in Geneva
“War Crimes” - 2001 in Paris
The European Charter of Fundamental Rights - 2001 in Frankfurt / Oder
“Enlargement of the European Union” - 2000 Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir
“Turkeys entrance into the European Union - 2000 in Frankfurt
“Asylum as a Human Right”
1993 – 1999
- 1999 in Paris
“Labor law under the conditions of Globalization”
- 1998 in Istanbul
“Environmental Law at the southern boarder of Europe” - 1997 in Strasburg
“Legislation and procedures against racism in Europe – What experiences ? What demands ?” - 1997 in Brussels
“Environmental law in Europe” - 1996 in Florence
“The European Union – What common Institutions ? What fundamental common policies ? “ - 1995 in Rome
“The weapon of hunger – against economic embargos” - 1995 in Istanbul
“Democracy and Human Rights in Turkey” - 1993 in Berlin
“Europe promises land Nationality, Immigration, Asylum”
Further activities in the past:
- Participation at the European Network against racism, ENAR
- Campaign against the detention of asylum seekers in Europe
- Observation of the political legal procedures in Turkey
- Mission in Iraq to investigate the impact of the UN-Embargo on the population
- Flight to Iraq to encourage the UN to lift it’s embargo
- Mission in Palestine to investigate the Human Rights Situation
- Mission in French Guyana to investigate the Human Rights Situation