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…
HANS-LITTEN-PRIZE AWARDING 2014
The Hans-Litten-Prize 2014 will be awarded to the CHD President Selçuk KOZAĞAÇLI Saturday, 17th May 2014, 14h00 – 18h00 Littenstrasse 9, 10179 Berlin, in the building of the German Federal Bar Association, BRAK Every two years the HANS-LITTEN-PRIZE is awarded by the German Association of Democratic Lawyers (VDJ) www.vdj.de , the German member association of…
Human Rights and Democracy in the context of EU Enlargement – Western Balkan perspectives
International Conference – With speakers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey Friday, 6th June 2014, 10:30 – 18:30, Belgrade Centre for cultural decontamination. http://www.czkd.org/?lang=en , Birčaninova 21, 11000 Beograd Programme: (as PDF file) 10:00 Registration (for registration send an email to your contact details) 10:30…
Next hearings in mass trials against lawyers in Turkey
ELDH demands the immediate end of political motivated mass trials in Turkey Istanbul Bar Association, Executive Board on trial (10 lawyers accused) The President and the Board of the Istanbul Bar Association were acquitted on 24 February 2014 of the charge of unlawfully influencing the court in the Balyoz (sledgehammer) trial. Meanwhile prosecution has appealed….
Politische Strafverfahren gegen Anwältinnen und Anwälte in der Türkei
Informations- und Diskussionsveranstaltung: 3. Dezember 2013, 19h00, Düsseldorf, im Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Bilker Straße 12-14 Mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln erreicht man das Institut von den Haltestellen Heinrich-Heine-Allee (Linien U 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79); Benrather Straße/ Kasernenstraße (703, 706, 712, 713, 715); Poststraße (704, 709, 719) jeweils in wenigen Minuten. Drei Massenverfahren gegen Anwältinnen und…
The Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2014 – HANDS OFF COLOMBIAN LAWYERS
24th January 2014 focussed on Colombia where lawyers have been a victim of state or private violence Lawyers all over Europe and in other countries protest on 24th January 2014 in Ankara, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bern, Bilbao, Brussels, Douala, Düsseldorf, The Hague, Istanbul, Izmir, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Quito, Rome, Seville, and Stockholm will show…
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