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…
Hans-Litten-Prize Awarding to Gareth PEIRCE
“… if there was only injustice and no resistance …” (quoted from the poem of Bertold Brecht “To Posterity”) On occasion of its 40th anniversary VDJ, the German member association of ELDH, will award the Hans-Litten-Prize to the English solicitor Gareth Peirce 15th September 2012, 18h30 – 20h00 in the Literaturhaus, Frankfurt (Main), Schöne Ausssicht…
Trial Observation on 20th June 2013 in Silivri (Istanbul)
Next hearing in the trial against 46 lawyers The “lawyers’ trial” is one of three mass trials which started in July 2012 in Istanbul. There are many mass trials in other Turkish towns, all are related to the “KCK operation” of the Turkish Government with about 8.000 arrests. Turkish Minister of Justice Sadullah Ergin, in…
MIGRANTS – OUTLAWS EVERYWHERE / THE ALIEN AS AN ENEMY? HOMELESS, EXCLUDED
European Conference with simultaneous translation: English – German 4th May 2013, 09h30 – 18h00, Berlin ver.di Headquarter (near Ostbahnhof), ver.di – Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft – United Services Union, Paula-Thiede-Ufer 10, 10179 Berlin, www.verdi.de Das Programm PDF 09h00 -Entrance, Registration Welcome and introduction to the conference 09h30 : Opening speech: « Thomas Gebauer, Frankfurt, Medico International:…
“Quo Vadis NATO? – Challenges for Democracy and Law”
International Conference Friday (26.4.): Konsul-Hackfeld-Haus, Birkenstr. 34, 28195 Bremen Saturday (27.4)/ Universität Bremen, Zentrum für Europäische Sunday (28.4.): Rechtspolitik, Universitätsallee, GW1, 28359 Bremen From 26th to 28th April 2013 the international conference „Quo Vadis NATO – Challenges for Democracy and Law“will take place in Bremen. The Main organizer of this event is the German section…
Enfermer et jeter la clé? Sens et non-sens de la prison
10ème COLLOQUE ANNUEL le 15 mars 2013 PROGRESS Lawyers Network Maison des Associations Internationales Rue Washington 40, 1050 BRUXELLES Sous l’Ancien Régime, la prison n’était qu’une mesure transitoire en attente du châtiment: peine de mort et autres peines corporelles. Aujourd’hui la prison s’est imposée comme la peine centrale au sein du système répressif. Les prisons…
Day of the Endangered Lawyer – 24th January 2013
European lawyers demand: Basque lawyers in Spain must enjoy the free exercise of their professional duties During the last two decades more than 20 Basque lawyers in Spain have been kept in pre-trial detention, several of them up to almost 2 years. All the arrested lawyers were charged with terrorist crimes connected with ETA, or…
ELDH Trial observation – Training/Workshop
Invitation ELDH Trial observation – Training/Workshop – 27th October 2012, 10h00 – 14h00 Bern (Switzerland) Hotel Kreuz Bern AG, Zeughausgasse 41, Postfach, CH-3000 Bern 7 Tel. +41 (0)31 329 95 95, Fax +41 (0)31 329 95 96, The training The training is in particular for lawyers (and also human rights activists) who are interested…
IS IT A CRIME TO BE A FOREIGNER?
Conference on the criminalization of migrants (languages: 16th March 2012, Brussels, 09h00 – 16h00 Maison des Associations Internationales (MAI), Rue Washington 40, 1050 BRUXELLES ‘Is is a crime to be a foreigner? We don’t think so.’ This is the last sentence in a dissenting opinion of six judges of the European Court of Human Rights…
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS CONFERENCE
International Conference 24th February 2012, London in the Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre Post 9/11 and in an age where States continually seek to control their citizens and curtail any challenge to their authority, the challenges faced by those working on behalf of vulnerable people are escalating. In light of this and the increasing…
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