BHRC writes to Nepal Prime Minister, urges effective investigation into deaths of the "Dhanusha Five"

Sanjeev Kumar Karna, Jitendra Jha, Durgesh Kumar Labh, and Shailendra Yadav were among 11 people arrested at a student picnic by Nepali security forces on 8 October 2003. The students were reportedly blindfolded, beaten up with...

Mexico’s historic ruling brings hope for justice

After struggling for more than 20 years to see her father’s killers brought to justice, the campaign of Tita Radilla and her lawyers at the Mexican Commission for the Defence and Protection of Human Rights achieved a historic...

Conference: Mexico and the Inter-American Court - video now available

Organised by PBI and the Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London, School of Advanced Study), this conference brought together interdisciplinary speakers and an audience from NGOs and political, legal and...[more]

Mexico: Abel Barrera and Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre honoured with German Amnesty International award

Mexican human rights defender Abel Barrera Hernández and the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre have received Amnesty International Germany’s Human Rights Award. [more]

Law Gazette on threatened Colombian lawyers

Six judges, 12 prosecutors and 334 defence lawyers were murdered in Colombia’s ‘judicial war’ between 2003 and 2009, a report by a delegation of British and international lawyers has claimed.

Colombia: British ambassador concerned for threatened lawyers' collective

Earlier this week British Ambassador John Dew and Second Secretary Iain Gill visited Colombia’s outstanding human rights lawyers of the Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo in Bogota.

Colombia: The Legal Profession Still Under Attack - report

Since I retired as a judge five years ago I have been privileged to meet some phenomenally brave Colombian lawyers. They have spoken at public meetings in London about the threats they face on a more or less daily basis. This...