Curfew Reports on Cizre and Silvan
Reports of lawyers and other observers 1. Lawyers Delegation to Cizre, ELDH has been represented by Lawyer Barbara Spinelli from Bologna The report on the lawyers Delegation to Cizre from 11 to 13 September 2015 (in Italian) The report on the lawyers Delegation to Cizre from 11 to 13 September 2015 (in English) 2. Lawyers…
Public Forum ‘Kurdish Question under European Union Law’
September 21, 2015 at 6:30pm – 8:30pm – Report – This event organised by the Centre for Kurdish Progress in partnership with the Centre for Turkey Studies hosted Barrister Professor Bill Bowring of of Birkbeck College University of London and a Barrister and Mr Atilla Balikci of the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminology within Paris…
Respect Democracy in Greece – give priority to social rights and not to financial interests
ELDH – open letter to the European Commission: On 27th June 2015, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called a referendum in Greece for July 5 on whether to approve a package of austerity measures demanded by the European Union (EU) in exchange for extending loans to avert Greek state bankruptcy. The referendum is provided for…
Conference – EUROPEAN CITIZENS WITHOUT DEFENCE – ACCESS TO JUSTICE, 8th May 2015, Madrid
Conference organized by: ALA – Asociación Libre de Abogados, EDL – European Democratic Lawyers, in cooperation with ELDH – European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights Available Speeches held at the conference (will be updated) Nicola Canestrini, Roverero Legal aid in Europe (summary), Marta Clapés, Barcelona EL CONTROL DE CALIDAD EN LA ASISTENCIA…
ELDH Statement – Fact Finding Mission concerning detained Basque Lawyers in Spain
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…
ELDH Letter for the release of the Palestinian member of parliament Khalida Jarrar
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…
„Der so genannte Anti-Terror Kampf am Beispiel der Kurdinnen und Kurden im Lichte internationalen Rechts“
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…
ELDH Protests the Decree of the Cabinet of Turkey to Postpone the Strikes in Metal Industry
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…
EUROPEAN LAWYERS EXPRESS THEIR UTMOST CONCERN ABOUT THE ARREST OF 12 BASQUE LAWYERS IN SPAIN
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…
Minderheitenschutz, Selbstbestimmungsrecht und Autonomie – Zu den rechtlichen Grundlagen für eine Lösung der kurdischen Frage in der Türkei
Fachgutachten von Prof. Dr. iur. Norman Paech / Dr. Sebahattin Topcuoğlu Dowload as PDF-file