Erklärungen & Publikationen
We have come to Madrid to investigate the circumstances of the arrest and the detention of Basque lawyers who are well known as defence lawyers for Basque activists – or as alleged terrorists, as the prosecutor will say. We are wondering why 12 lawyers from Basque country were arrested in January, why their offices were …
Letter sent to the Israeli Prime Minister and to the Brigadier General and Judge Advocate General We demand the immediate release of the Palestinian member of parliament Khalida Jarrar. Mrs. Jarrar, a lawyer and a longtime prisoners’ rights activist and political leader, was arrested in her Ramallah home in the early morning hours of April …
Bonn, Internationale Fachtagung, 6. – 8. Februar 2015 Bonner Abschluss-Resolution Nach intensiver Befassung der TeilnehmerInnen der Fachtagung mit dem Selbstbestimmungsrecht der KurdInnen dem Konzept des Terrorismus und dem rechtlichen und politischen Lösungsweg kommen diese zu folgendem Ergebnis: Das kurdische Volk in den Staaten des Nahen-Ostens (Türkei, Syrien, Irak, Iran) hat das Recht auf Selbstbestimmung. Nach …
Open letter to the Turkish Prime Minister ELDH is severely concerned to learn that the Turkish Cabinet has postponed, in reality banned, the strikes in the metal industry covering 38 companies that Birleşik Metal-İş partly launched on 29 January 2015 and would start on 19 February 2015 in ten different cities of Turkey. Download letter …
Declaration / Press release / Letter to the Spanish minister of justice The European Lawyers Associations ELDH and AED-EDL are extremely concerned about the information that on 12th January 2015, at 07h00 in the morning in the Basque Country/Spain and in Madrid 16 people, among them 12 lawyers, were arrested for alleged terrorist crimes. The …
Fachgutachten von Prof. Dr. iur. Norman Paech / Dr. Sebahattin Topcuoğlu Dowload as PDF-file
Saturday, 15th November 2014, Paris, France – Conference Reader – (speeches or Power Point slides) Prof. Keith Ewing (Kings College London), Introduction – Collective Bargaining in times of Austerity Isabelle Schoemann (Senior Researcher, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels), Collective Bargaining – comparison of the changes on national level under the impact of the crisis. …
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Joint declaration on Israel’s Gaza offensive: The International Community Must End Israel’s Collective Punishment of the Civilian Population in the Gaza Strip (supported by ELDH) (PDF-File) British Lawyers and Professors urge ICC to initiate investigation into crimes being committed in the Gaza Strip (among them Bill Bowring, ELDH President) – http://barhumanrights.org.uk/british-lawyers-and-professors-urge-icc-initiate-investigation-crimes-being-committed-gaza-strip
Prof. Dr. Lieven De Cauter: The Extremes of Contemporary Politics – A Philosophical Address in Honour of an Imprisoned Turkish Lawyer (PDF – File) Prof. Dr. Beate Rudolf, Direktorin des Deutschen Instituts für Menschenrechte: Laudatory Speech Dieter Hummel, President of the German Association of Democratic Lawyers: The Awarding of the HANS-LITTEN-PRIZE to the ÇHD President Selçuk …