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NL Times
April 17, 2018
The coalition consists of privacy watchdogs Bits of Freedom and Privacy first, the Dutch Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the Dutch Association of Criminal Lawyers, Free Press Unlimited, data center BIT, internet companies Voys and Speakup, and the Platform Protection of Civil Rights.
Eurasia Times
April 13, 2018
Lawyer Katarina Golubovic from the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, Yucom, said Seselj's term automatically ended under the law. The Dutch-based court said Seselj was guilty of inciting hate crimes with his nationalist speeches, including one in May 1992 that was deemed to have sparkedÃâà...
Balkan Insight
April 12, 2018
Lawyer Katarina Golubovic from the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, YUCOM, said that Seselj's term is automatically ended by the law and the relevant parliamentary board for administrative issues has to recognise that fact. “After that, the report from the board has to be sent to parliament, whichÃâà...
Balkan Insight
April 9, 2018
“We believe the process of obtaining information would be considerably slowed down because institutions will initiate undue legal proceedings,” lawyer Katarina Golubovic, from the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, YUCOM, said. She told BIRN that while the same possibility exists in some EuropeanÃâà...
Inquirer.net
February 22, 2018
The New York-based Lawyers Committee for Human Rights issued a report saying: “'In the past year, the human rights of Filipinos have suffered grave violations on a wide scale.” ADVERTISEMENT. Even the Free Legal Assistance Group, the prestigious human rights organization founded by Cory's allyÃâà...
Balkan Insight
December 27, 2017
Milan Antonijevic, from the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, YUCOM, said Serbia also does not understand UN system. “It's all up to states which voluntarily accepted to be part of that [UN] system to respect human rights,” he told BIRN. Antonijevic added that Serbia is often on the agenda of theÃâà...
Balkan Insight
November 23, 2017
“A guilty verdict would not be likely from the point of view of international law,” said Milan Antonijevic, director of the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, YUCOM, in Belgrade. Antonijevic explained that no court has clear jurisdiction for the victims to address when seeking compensation. As for RepublikaÃâà...
Balkan Insight
November 13, 2017
The director of the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, Milan Antonijevic, also said he could not recall any such incident. “They can increase the secrecy level of certain parts of the document but… the document in its entirety cannot be declared a secret,” Antonijevic told BIRN. Lawyer Marina Kljaic, who follows war crimeÃâà...
Balkan Insight
November 8, 2017
However, a legal councillor at the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, Milena Vasic, said that if the foundation's proposal was adopted, it might not make things any better. "This is a quite populist [proposal], which will not decrease the crime rate," Vasic told BIRN. According to her, prevention of crime isÃâà...
Balkan Insight
July 24, 2017
Milan Antonijevic from the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, YUCOM, told BIRN that seeking compensation in this way would be difficult, although not impossible. “Previous lawsuits brought against NATO or similar organisations didn't yield results,” Antonijevic said, explaining that it is unclear whichÃâà...
ACLU (blog)
July 21, 2017
Turning to the frontier of international human rights in his post-ACLU days, Norman led the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights and the U.S. Association of Constitutional Law. In 1995, he became founding director of the Hauser Global Law School program at NYU, one of the first programs of its kind.
HuffPost
July 15, 2017
Twenty years ago, when Human Rights First was called The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, it issued a report calling on the British Government to “require vigorous and independent investigation of all threats to legal counsel in Northern Ireland. Solicitors who report threats of violence should beÃâà...
Balkan Insight
June 12, 2017
Milan Antonijevic from the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights told RTS that he gives little chance of success to the proposed lawsuits. “On the one hand we are talking about the impossibility of determining direct guilt, and on the other hand, we believe that the situation will be very similar to the one inÃâà...
Human Rights First
June 6, 2017
London—Human Rights First today released a new report on the intimidation of lawyers in Northern Ireland working on the so-called legacy cases related to the Northern Ireland conflict, known as “The Troubles.” The report, “A Troubling Turn: The Vilification of Human Rights Lawyers in Northern Ireland,”Ãâà...
