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 …

6 YEARS OF AUSTERITY AND THE IMPACT ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

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. …

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 …

Israel – Palestine

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

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 to the ÇHD President Selçuk KOZAĞAÇLI

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 …

OVER THREE HUNDRED VICTIMS IN SOMA

EUROPEAN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION DEMANDS FREE ACCESS FOR LAWYERS AND INVESTIGATORS Press Release ELDH condemns in the strongest possible terms the arrest and ill-treatment of 8 lawyers in Soma. According to reports and witnesses 8 lawyers were  taken into custody on May 17th in Soma, including the President of the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) Selçuk Kozağaçlı. …

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 …