Upcoming Events
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Thursday 16 October 2014 6:30pm – 8:00pm | ‘LPHR Student Network Launch 2014’ Guest Speaker: Sahar Francis, Director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (based in Ramallah) View Event Poster (also view the eventbrite page here and facebook page here.) Location: BPP Law School (London). This event is exclusively for students. Please register for this event (see above eventbrite page for details). |
Past News & Events
(Please see the urgent actions section of our website for information on our urgent action letters and published articles)
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06.10.2014 | ‘The rule of law, accountability and Gaza’ Speakers: Daniel Machover, Nuriya Oswald, Dr Janina Dill. Chaired by: Andrea Becker. View Poster Location: Garden Court Chambers To read a summary of the issues discussed during the event, please see: Summary of Event |
30.09.2014 | LPHR and Al Mezan submit comprehensive complaint to the United Nations concerning large-scale destruction and damage to family homes in the Gaza Strip with associated profound loss of life and injury to Palestinian residents, during Israel’s military operation between 7 July 2014 and 26 August 2014. |
16.09.2014 | LPHR and Addameer submit complaints to the United Nations concerning the Israeli detention of two female Palestinian human rights defenders: Ms Shireen Issawi and Ms Bushra al-Taweel. |
26.08.2014 | LPHR and Addameer provide update on the continued detention of the Palestinian human rights defender, Murad Shtaiwi, under Israel’s repressive protest law. |
03.07.2014 | LPHR and Addameer submit complaint to the United Nations concerning the military detention of Palestinian human rights defender, Murad Shtaiwi, under Israel’s repressive protest law |
02.06.2014 | LPHR Press Statement: G4S to be investigated by the OECD UK National Contact Point following LPHR comprehensive complaint relating to alleged Israeli human rights violations. This news is reported in the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. |
10.04.2014 | LPHR Student Network held a film screening at the University of Law of Stone Cold Justice followed by an informative Q&A on the issue of Palestinian child detainees under Israeli military arrest and detention with Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC and Jude Lanchin. |
26.02.2014 | LPHR Student Network held a film screening at BPP Law School of The Do Gooders followed by an illuminating Q&A with director Chloe Ruthven and the film’s main protagonist Lubna Masarwa.
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23.12.2013 | LPHR and Defence for Children International Palestine launch its “Know Your Rights” campaign to educate and empower Palestinian children to secure their basic rights. |
19.11.2013 7:30pm – 10.00pm | Following our AGM, we were delighted to hold a public film screening at the elegant Mosaic Rooms of Khaled Jarrar’s award winning 2012 documentary film on restriction of movement, Infiltrators. |
19.11.2013 | LPHR submit complaint to the OECD UK National Contact Point against conduct of the security group G4S in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. |
01.05.2013 | ‘Palestine and the International Criminal Court’ Speakers: Professor William A. Schabas from Middlesex University and Mahmoud AbuRahma from Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights. Chaired by Andrea Becker. View Poster Location: Garden Court Chambers. To read a summary of the issues discussed during the event, please see: Summary of Event |
20.02.2013 6:30pm – 8:00pm | ‘Palestinian Political Prisoners: the intersection between International law and the Palestinian struggle’ Speaker: Sahar Francis from Addameer. Chaired by Rachel Waller. View Poster Location: Garden Court Chambers. To read more about the issues discussed during the event, please see: Summary of Event |
22.11.2012 7.15pm-8.30pm | We were delighted to hold a public event with Colonel Desmond Travers and Daragh Murray as part of our AGM. Desmond Travers – one of the authors of the ‘Goldstone Report’ – discussed Gaza post ‘Operation Cast Lead’. Daragh Murray told us about his experience working for the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza. Chaired by Daniel Machover. Location: St Bride Foundation.
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| 15.11.2012 7.00pm-8.30pm | ‘Discriminatory Laws of the Netanyahu Government’ Speaker: Hassan Jabareen from Adalah. Chaired by Sarah McSherry. Location: Garden Court Chambers. |
07.06.2012 7.00pm – 8.30pm | ‘Is there a Court for Gaza?’ We were delighted to hold a seminar marking the launch of the book ‘Is there a Court for Gaza’. Dr Michael Kearney, Dr Chantal Meloni, Daragh Murray and Stephanie Barbour discussed key issues raised within the book in an event chaired by Daniel Machover. Location: Amnesty International. To watch interviews of our speakers, click here. |
24.04.2012 6.30pm | ‘Applying International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law regarding Palestine: Possibilities and Limitations’
Speaker: Jeff Halper from Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Chaired by Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC. Location: Tooks Chambers.
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12.04.2012 7.00pm | ‘”Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted” – Children held in military detention.’
Location: Garden Court Chambers. For more information on the latest report from Defence for Children International – Palestine Section: http://www.dci-palestine.org/sites/default/files/report_0.pdf To read more about the issues discussed during the event, please see: Summary of Event |
20.03.2012 7.00 – 8.30pm | ‘Systems of segregation affecting Palestinians’ Speakers: Ben White, Victor Kattan and Dr Michael Kearney. Chaired by Hannah Rought-Brooks. View Poster Location: Garden Court Chambers. To read more about the issues discussed during the event, please see: Summary of Event |
23.02.2012 6.30-8.00pm (Reception: 8-9pm) | Special Seminar and Reception ‘Defending Palestinian Human Rights: the facts on the ground’ Speakers: Hanan Abu Ghosh, Raji Sourani, Zakariah Odeh. Chaired by Tareq Shrourou. View Poster Location: Garden Court Chambers. We were delighted to welcome three prominent Palestinian Human Rights Defenders who discussed urgent human rights issues in the Occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza. |
| 11.01.2012 | LPHR public event: ‘Housing, Land and Property Rights in East Jerusalem and the West Bank’ – View Poster |
| 28.11.2011 | LPHR public event: ‘Discussing the Palestinian Bid for Statehood’ – View Poster |
| 27.10.2011 | Charity Launch of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights: Inaugural AGM, followed by an evening with comedian and writer Mark Thomas and closing comments from Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC. |
| 18.05.2011 | LPHR public event: ‘Refuseniks – Refusing to serve in the Israeli Defence Force’ – View Poster |
| 28.03.2011 | LPHR public event: ‘Enforcing Housing Rights – The Case of Sheikh Jarrah’ – View Poster |
| 24.02.2010 | LPHR public event: ‘Should the Attorney General be able to veto judicial arrest warrants against suspected war criminals?’ – View Poster |
| 14.12.2009 | LPHR public event: ‘Beyond the Goldstone Report’ – View Poster |
| 21.09.2009 | LPHR publishes ‘Advice on the Labelling of goods from the Occupied Palestinian Territories’ written by legal Counsel – View Advice |
| 19.01.2009 | LPHR Public Event: ‘Israel in Gaza: Violations of International Law?’ – View Poster |
| 14.01.2009 | Daniel Machover appears in a Newsnight special edition programme on the topic of War Crimes committed in Gaza by the Israeli army. View The Case for War Crimes and The Debate over War Crimes. |
| 07.01.2009 | Read LPHR’s Legal Questions and Answers Relating to the Conflict in the Gaza Strip. |
| 27.12.2008 –> onwards | LPHR responds to Israel’s attacks on Gaza through a series of urgent actions and protests. |
| 16.09.2008 |  LPHR hosted Raja Shehadeh (writer, lawyer, founder of Al-Haq and author of Orwell Prize winning ‘Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape’) who gave a talk entitled “Disappearing Territory: Israel’s Occupation and Palestinian Land”.Buy Raja Shehadeh’s award winning book |
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