Lawyers on hunger strike near death
The undersigned organisations have been following recent developments in the cases of human rights lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, who have been on hunger strike since February 2020. On 5 April 2020, the Turkish Day of the Lawyer, Timtik and Ünsal announced that they would persist in their hunger strike even if it leads…
ELDH Statement – The Israeli Annexation plan must be stopped
The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) is gravely concerned and alarmed at the announcement of the Israeli government that it planned to unlawfully annex even more Palestinian territory. Israel seems to have temporarily halted the annexation of the Jordan Valley, but the threat remains. This land comprises 30% of…
Resolution on European border control in the Mediterranean Sea
IADL, AED and ELDH condemn the tactics employed by the European Union and other European countries member to the Schengen/Dublin Area through their agents and agencies, particularly Frontex, to repel and collectively expulse migrants seeking to enter Europe by sea from Turkey and North Africa. IADL, AED and ELDH call for a radical defunding of…
Solidarity with Turkish Bar Associations
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…
End the Breach of Law in the Greek Refugee Camps: Refugee Admission instead of Symbolic Politics
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…
Final Report – Fact-finding mission on CHD’s trials – October 2019, Istanbul
Fact-Finding-Mission-on-CHDs-Trials-Oct – 2019, June-2020
Letter to the President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture – Imprisoned lawyers on hunger strike
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…
Erklärung von europäischen Jurist*innen zum 1. Mai: Anti-Covid-19-Politik bedroht die Rechte von Arbeitnehmer*innen
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…
ELDH Statements and reports – in solidarity with detained lawyers in Turkey
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…
Amicus Curiae observations of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers On the Court’s Territorial Jurisdiction in Palestine
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