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European lawyers express solidarity with Turkish Bar Associations The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) expresses its grave concern at the news that a peaceful demonstration of the presidents and other members of almost 60 Bar Associations was blocked by the police, without any legal ground, from entering Ankara. The …
RAV-ELDH Press release End the Breach of Law in the Greek Refugee Camps: Refugee Admission instead of Symbolic Politics More than 30,000 people continue to live in the Greek refugee camps under catastrophic and inhuman conditions. At today’s [June 16] Federal Press Conference (BPK) in Berlin, the RAV together with other organizations commented and called …
Fact-Finding-Mission-on-CHDs-Trials-Oct – 2019, June-2020
President of theEuropean Committee for the Prevention of Tortureand Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) Professor Dr. Mykola GNATOVSKYYCouncil of EuropeF-67075 Strasbourg CedexFranceFAX +33 (0)3 88 41 27 72 Download the letter Ill treatment of political prisoners in Turkey – unjustified health risk due to Corona pandemic Dear Mr Gnatskovskyy, The undersigned lawyers’ organisations …
Die Covid-19-Pandemiepolitik der europäischen Regierungen hat dramatische Folgen, insbesondere für Arbeitnehmer*innen, Selbständige und Kleinunternehmen In vielen Wirtschaftssektoren sind die Beschäftigten stark gesundheitsgefährdet, insbesondere im Gesundheits- und Pflegebereich, im öffentlichen Verkehrssektor und im Einzelhandel sowie im Bereich der Lieferdienste. Arbeitsschutzvorschriften, die in einigen Ländern bereits völlig unzulänglich sind, werden nur noch in begrenztem Umfang angewandt, obwohl …
On 2 April 2020, more than 70 lawyers from all over the world followed the call for a video conference in solidarity with lawyers imprisoned for political reasons in Turkey, with interventions from Ayşe Bingöl of the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project, Barbara Spinelli of Giuristi Democratici, and Şerife Ceren Uysal, of the Progressive …
SITUATION IN THE STATE OF PALESTINE Download the Amicus Curiae which was submitted to the PRE-TRIAL CHAMBER I of the International Criminal Court on 16 March 2020
The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH) is gravely concerned at the news, that on 12 March 2020, 10 lawyers were arrested and later detained, and their homes and those of another 3 lawyers and offices were searched (7 in Urfa, 5 in Diyarbakır and one in Şirnak province). The following …
On 1 March 2020 the Greek Government unilaterally invoked Article 78.3 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), announcing that it would not accept new asylum applications for one month and that those who attempt to enter illegally would be turned back. These measures were in response to the Turkish Government’s …
Les signataires ont pris connaissance de la récente décision du gouvernement grec d’augmenter les mesures de dissuasion aux frontières au niveau maximal, de ne plus enregistrer de demandes d’asile pendant un mois et de renvoyer vers leur pays d’origine ou de transit toute personne tentant d’entrer en Grèce de façon irrégulière, suite à l’annonce des …