Our final Conference session from the International Women's Conference 2015 is on the subject of Women in Work. The speakers are:
Yesterday: Keynote Speech of Angela Davis.
Professor Angela Davis speaks in London at the Women Fighting Back: International and Legal Perspectives Conference on feminism, socialism, and fighting back.
Yesterday: The State and Women's Bodies.
Tomorrow: Women in Work.
The sixth of our conference sessions from the International Women's Conference is on the subject of the State and Women's Bodies. The speakers are:
Yesterday: Women in Peace and Conflict.
Tomorrow: Keynote Speech of Angela Davis.
In our fifth panel session from the International Women's Conference we hear about Women in Peace and Conflict from:
Yesterday: Violence against Women; and the Istanbul Convention.
Tomorrow: The State and Women's Bodies.
The European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights presented a brief session on the campaign for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention on action against violence against women and domestic violence.
Previously today: Violence against Women;
Next tomorrow: Women in Peace and Conflict.
Our third conference session is on the subject of Violence against Women. The speakers are:
Yesterday: Migrant and Refugee Women; and Keynote speech by Rashida Manjoo.
Next today: The Istanbul Convention.
And next tomorrow: Women in Peace and Conflict.
The second of our videos from the International Women's Conference 2015 comes from Professor Rashida Manjoo. In her keynote speech on 28 November 2015 she addressed the themes of feminism, women's rights, and international law.
Previously today: Migrant and Refugee Women.
Next tomorrow: Violence against Women; and the Istanbul Convention.
In anticipation of the release of Socialist Lawyer 72 the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers will be bringing you over the next few days a series of videos from the conference, showcasing the panel discussions and the best of the workshop sessions. Find below the first of our sessions, on Migrant and Refugee Women.
Over the coming days we will bring you a new video daily.
Next today: Keynote Speech of Rashida Manjoo.
The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers invites you to our next lecture in our Human Rights Lecture Series: Free Her! Women Political Prisoners.
6.30pm to 8.30pm at Basement Lecture Theatre (GSB01), School of Law, London Metropolitan University, 16 Goulston Street, London, E1 7TP.
Closest tubes: Aldgate or Aldgate East.
Members of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and other campaigners attend outside the Honduran Embassy in London.
Members of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers joined lawyers around the world to protest at Honduran Embassies against the treatment of human rights defenders in Honduras.
The protests, facilitated by organisations connected to our partners the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights, and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, highlight the role of international solidarity in protecting human rights defenders.
Members of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers hand in a petition to the Honduran Embassy in London.
The following letter, signed by leading members of the Society, was published in The Guardian on 22 January 2016:
We write to highlight that Friday 22 January 2016 is the Day of the Endangered Lawyer. Lawyers in the UK will be picketing the Honduran embassy to highlight the plight of lawyers and human rights defenders in that country who face violent attacks and human rights violations on a daily basis.
In 2013 there were 29 violent acts against lawyers, of whom nine were injured and 24 died. In 2014 the national commissioner for human rights recorded the death of 11 lawyers. Between 2010 and March 2015 the commissioner recorded 91 deaths of lawyers as a result of targeted killings.
So bad is the situation that both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in their most recent world reports highlighted the fact that scores of human rights defenders, including indigenous and campesino leaders, LGBTI activists, justice officials and journalists were victims of human rights violations, suffering killings, physical violence, kidnapping, threats, and daily harassment. We cannot let their voices remain unheard.
We believe that lawyers in Honduras should be allowed to perform their professional duties without any intimidation, and that adequate protection needs to be provided by the state, especially when their lives are at risk as a result of the exercise of their profession.
Our aim in picketing on Friday is to highlight the ongoing wave of violence directed at lawyers and human rights defenders in Honduras. Alongside our call for members of the public to protest this Friday, we urge your newspaper to join us in raising awareness, and to support our campaign for the unwavering protection of those who work tirelessly to promote and defend human rights around the world.
Russell Fraser Chair, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Prof Bill Bowring President, ELDH European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & Human Rights
Michael Mansfield QC
Geoffrey Bindman QC
John Hendy QC
Catrin Lewis Barrister, Garden Court chambers
Louise Christian Vice-president, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
David Watkinson Barrister (non-practising)
Paul Heron Solicitor, Public Interest Lawyers
Wendy Pettifer Solicitor, Hackney Community Law Centre
