As the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice is about to begin in Kyoto, Japan, the undersigned organizations urge the Economic and Social Council...
UIA-IROL expresses concern as another human rights lawyer is disbarred at the request of the Azerbaijan Bar Association.
In early 2021, over one hundred NGOs and lawyers’ organizations from around the world wrote to Ministers for Foreign Affairs calling them to lead and support the creation of a monitoring...
In a hearing held on March 22, 2021, the Lawyers' Disciplinary Board in Bahrain decided to prohibit prominent human rights lawyer Abdullah Alshamlawi from practicing his profession for one...
In a letter to President Erdogan (see below), UIA-IROL expressed grave concern regarding the decision of the Turkish government to withdraw from the Council of Europe Convention on the...
UIA-IROL has been informed that Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Diyarbakır Bar Association with respect to a statement it released on April 24, Armenian...
Today, 14 June 2021, marks the inaugural International Fair Trial Day (IFTD) which will be observed for the first time worldwide. The focus country of the IFTD this year is Turkey, a...
Urgent Action Needed to Address Serious Concerns Raised by UN Rights Bodies
June 23, 2021 - Attacks against lawyers in the Philippines continue to take place and killings have reached a record high since the start of President Duterte’s administration five...
