While most attention is focused on the demonstration in Ukraine, a recent report by the respected International Commission of Jurists [ICJ] casts light on alarming trend of disbarments and suspensions of lawyers. The report casts light on a conflict in the legal profession, which has led to apparently arbitrary disciplinary action against a significant number of lawyers. The report reveals the escalating dispute in the legal profession following the implementation of a new law, signed by the President on 5 July 2012, which significantly changed the organization of the profession and provides for the establishment of a new bar association. The law,
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Alarming disbarments and suspensions of lawyers in Ukraine
February 13, 2014Posted in books, human rights, Human Rights Defenders, ICJ | Leave a Comment »
Tags: bar association, disciplinary, ICJ, Independence of Lawyers, International Commission of Jurists, lawyers, legal profession, Temur Shakirov, Ukraine, UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers
Call for more moderate Muslim voices in Malaysia’s human rights debate
November 18, 2013An interesting example of how human rights defenders should tackle the pernicious issue of islamic opposition to human rights progress comes from Malaysia:
According to Bar Council member Andrew Khoo, Muslim-majority countries were among those which have asked Malaysia to obey international human rights standards in the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) last month. “These are not Western, European-centric recommendations… For anyone to attempt to say this is a Western agenda, sorry you’re barking up the wrong tree,” said Khoo, who is the co-chairman of the Bar Council’s Human Rights Committee. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Andrew Khoo, bar association, Comango, Human right, human rights law, human rights lawyers, international human rights treaties, Islam, islamic fundamentalists, Malaysia, Nalini, Non-governmental organization, ratification, Suaram, The Malay Mail Online, Universal Periodic Review, UPR
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 