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Publications, reports and other resources relating to the work of the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk or to PBI's work with lawyers and other human rights defenders working on legal issues and rule of law. Latest resourcesDocuments and reportsThe Ruggie principles: a remedy for Colombian communities facing the environmental and human rights impact of multinationals? Report on the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk mission to Colombia in 2012 PBI submission to Conservative Party Human Rights Commission on the situation of human rights lawyers and other human rights defenders in the countries where PBI works. Download (pdf 576 kb) Colombia: The Legal Profession Still Under Attack (report of the 2010 delegation of the International Caravana of Jurists) Alliance action documentation2013 26 April: Letter from SIHRG and BHRC to the President of the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, expressing concern about moves to annul the trial for genocide of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt. 8 April: Statement from the BHRC expressing concern about the murder of another lawyer in Colombia. March: Joint submission of the Law Society, Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L) and Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of Mexico's Universal Periodic Review (UPR). 26 March: Letter from the Law Society to the Prime Minister of Nepal expressing concern about death threats and violence against Mandira Sharma. 12 March: Letter from BHRC to the Prime Minister of Nepal expressing concern about threats and incitement to violence against Mandira Sharma, founder of Advocacy Forum. 4 January: Letter from SIHRG to the Attorney General of Colombia on the conviction of human rights defender David Ravelo Crespo. 7 January: Amicus curiae submitted to the Criminal Chambers of the Supreme Court of Colombia in the case of the 2005 massacre at the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó. 17 January: Letter from SIHRG to the president of the Consitutional Court of Guatemala regarding the appeal for protection (amparo) lodged by Héctor Mario López Fuentes, one of the accused in the Maya Ixil genocide case. 2012 7 June: Letter from SIHRG to Mexican president Felipe Calderón on the need for immediate protection of human rights defenders in Oaxaca 21 April: Letter from SIHRG, IBA and BHRC to UN High Commissioner on Human Rights on protection for journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico 2011 21 Nov: Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) statement on Mapiripán case 24 July: BHRC letter to Nepal Prime Minister re Dhanusha Five case Video and audioConference: Mexico and the Inter-American Court - videoHeld on 7 June 2011 at Senate House, University of London. Panel 1 - Mexico and Compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human RightsChair: Dr Par Engstrom, Human Rights Consortium Panel 2 - The Situation of Mexican Human Rights Defenders and Lessons Learned from the European Court of Human RightsChair: Sir Henry Brooke Download a conference briefing. Audio podcasts of the panels are also available here. Bearers of Hope: Risks and challenges for human rights lawyers in ColombiaHuman rights lawyers dedicate their lives to representing victims in cases of forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and massacres. But working on emblematic cases comes with a very high price. In Colombia, where 90% of human rights violations remain in impunity, stigmatisation, threats and persecution are part of the daily pressures these lawyers must face. In this video, some of the lawyers accompanied by PBI speak about the risks they face and what motivates them to continue their work representing victims of human rights violations. |
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