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International DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER – 22 January 2016

On 22nd January 2016, all over Europe, in solidarity the the lawyers and judges in Honduras protests will be organized outside Honduran Embassies and Consulates Since 2010 every year on or about  24 January protests are organized in front of embassies in solidarity with endangered lawyers, who are threatened, attacked, or even killed because they…

WOMEN FIGHTING BACK: INTERNATIAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES

International Women’s Conference, Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th November 2015, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, SE1 0AA PROGRAMME Saturday 28 November 2015 09:30 – 10:00 Registration/Coffee 10:00 – 10:30 Welcome Note: Liz Davies (UK) Honorary Vice-Chair of the Haldane Society and Housing Rights Lawyer. 10:30 – 12:00 Panel Discussion: Migrant and Refugee Women…

Mass trials against lawyers in Turkey going on

KCK Lawyers Trial, next hearing on 22nd October 2015, in Istanbul In November 2011, 46 lawyers were arrested in simultaneous police raids in many Turkish cities as part of the so-called KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) operations, anti-terror operations that have seen over 8.000 journalists, trade unionists, politicians, deputies, local coucillors and mayors http://peaceinkurdistancampaign.wordpress.com/resources/pik-campaign-statements/trials-and-tribulations-in-turkey/ arrested since…

UNDER PRESSURE OF THE TROIKA – THE IMPACT ON COLLECTIVE LABOUR RIGHTS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE AND IRELAND

Invitation to the European Labour Law Conference – 17th of October 2015 – Madrid – SAVE THE DATE SAVE THE DATE – and register now with your name, profession, contact details by email ! Download the Invitation with the draft programme ***** European Labour Law conference UNDER PRESSURE OF THE TROIKA – THE IMPACT ON…

Mass Trials against Lawyers in Turkey

Next oppotunities for trial observations The next hearing of the “KCK Lawyers Trial” (46 accused lawyers) will be 7th and 8th May 2015 again in Istanbul. The next hearing of the “ÇHD or DHKP-C Lawyers Trial” will be 13th and 14th May 2015 in Istanbul Trial observations are important to collect information about these trials,…

EUROPEAN CITIZENS WITHOUT DEFENCE – ACCESS TO JUSTICE

International Colloquium organized by: ALA – Asociación Libre de Abogados, AED/EDL European Democratic Lawyers in collaboration with ELDH European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights enue: SAVIA SOLAR – Sala de conferencias : Calle Escuadra, 11, 28012 Madrid, saviasolar.org/contacto/ Programme download the programme (PDF English version) (PDF French version) (PDF Spanish version)…

THE RIGHT TO STRIKE: a threatened democratic right?

Colloquium, 20th March 2015, European Parliament ı Conference Room JAN 2Q2, Wiertzstraat 60 ı 1047 BRUSSELS Programme (details see invitation folder – PDF-File) – registration necessary before the 6th March 2015 progresslawevents.net/en/home/ 8.30 WELCOME 9.00 – 10.40 SESSION 1 The right to strike and the right to collective action: Genesis and current developments 11.00 -12.20…

DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER – 2015

Friday, 23rd January 2015 Activities all over Europe in solidarity for the Philippine lawyers In 2015 on the fifth DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER (after 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014) protest will be organized together by the European Association of Democratic Lawyers AED-EDL http://www.aeud.org/ the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights…

Western Sahara – Referendum NOW!

International Meeting of Experts – Promoting the Political Process 12th and 13th December, Berlin A&O Hotel and Hostel Berlin Hauptbahnhof Lehrter Straße 12, 10557 Berlin, Germany UN General Assembly 1966 “Invites the adminmistering Power to determine at the earliest possible date, in conformity with the aspirations of the indigenous people of Spanish Sahara and in…

6 YEARS OF AUSTERITY AND THE IMPACT ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Invitation to the International Conference Saturday, 15th November 2014, 09h00 – 17h00 Maison de l’Europe 35-37 Rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75004 Paris, France 0900 Entrance, registration Morning 09h30 Welcome: Jean Luc Wabant, Lawyer Lille/Paris, SAF, ELW-Coordinating Committee 10h00 Prof. Keith Ewing (Kings College London), Introduction – Collective Bargaining in times of Austerity 10h45 Isabelle Schoemann…


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