Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) is a lawyer-based legal charity in the UK (Charity No. 1175498) that implements key legal projects to protect and advance Palestinian human rights.
LPHR’s principal charitable objective is to contribute to positively transforming the egregious human rights crisis impacting Palestinians.
LPHR pursues this fundamental objective through the following distinct components:
- Specialist legal and human rights submissions to relevant investigatory and accountability mechanisms, including the International Criminal Court;
- Considered policy engagement from a legal and human rights perspective with UK government ministers and officials, parliamentarians, and UN human rights officials;
- High quality and free legal work, advice and support;
- Diligent monitoring, analysis and assessment of actual and potential violations;
- Legal and human rights public education (includes engaging law students at law schools and universities in London through the LPHR Student Network).
LPHR works with Palestinian and Israeli human rights organisations. We additionally have strong working relationships with a number of UK humanitarian and faith-based charities.
LPHR is firmly dedicated through our work and ethos to upholding international law, pursuing justice, and honouring the dignity of the Palestinian people.
LPHR was initially set-up as a small volunteer group in London by UK-based practising lawyers and law students. It obtained UK charitable status in 2012, and appointed its first Director to lead the new legal charity in January 2013.
Tareq Shrourou – LPHR Director
Tareq is Director of LPHR. Prior to this he was a practising human rights solicitor and co-supervised the legal advice service at the UK human rights organisation, Liberty.
Tareq leads on LPHR’s specialist legal work, government engagement, public education and outreach. He supervises and works with LPHR’s Executive Committee who provide outstanding voluntary support. He implements LPHR’s strategy with the oversight of its expert Board of Trustees and has responsibility for LPHR’s profile and impact.
Before becoming LPHR’s first Director in 2013, Tareq worked as a human rights solicitor representing asylum claimants, unaccompanied children and survivors of human trafficking. Freedom from Torture referred particularly vulnerable individuals with complex cases specifically to Tareq.
Prior to being a practising solicitor, Tareq co-supervised the free legal advice service at Liberty which helps hundreds of individuals each year, after having completed his legal training at a leading civil liberties law firm in London.
Tareq holds an LLB law degree from SOAS, University of London, an LLM in Public International Law from King’s College London, University of London, and completed the Legal Practice Course with a distinction.
LPHR Trustees (2025-26)
- Michael Lynk – Former United Nations Special Rapporteur and currently an Emeritus Professor of Law at Western University, Canada. Michael has served a full six-year term as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Between 2016-2022, Michael regularly addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva and the 3rd Committee of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. His UN reports have been widely cited, including in court filings published in 2025 by the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court. Michael joined LPHR’s Board of Trustees shortly after completing his term as UN Special Rapporteur.
- Fiona McKay – International lawyer and human rights practitioner with vast experience in international criminal justice. Fiona led the establishment of the first victim participation programme in an international criminal tribunal – as Chief of the Victim Participation and Reparations Section in the Registry of the International Criminal Court – and was Senior Managing Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative.
- Tessa Gregory – Partner at the UK law firm, Leigh Day. Tessa is described by the Legal 500 as “a stand-out public lawyer who brings tenacity, intelligence and a wealth of experience to her cases.”
- Nusrat Uddin – Partner at the UK law firm, Wilsons. Nusrat was highly commended in the 2019 Law Society Excellence Awards as Human Rights Lawyer of the Year, and is ranked in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
- Bill Bowring – Emeritus Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Geraldine Isherwood – Experienced finance director and manager.
LPHR Executive Committee (2025-26)
- Natalie Sedacca (joined 2013) – Assistant Professor in Employment Law at the University of Durham, researching labour law and human rights. Formerly Lecturer in Law at Exeter University and Teaching Fellow at University College London (UCL) and Queen Mary University of London. Natalie holds an an LLM in Transnational Law (Distinction) from King’s College London and a PhD from UCL. Before entering academia, Natalie spent nine years in legal practice, including seven as a qualified solicitor, specialising in claims against the police and public authorities.
- Aleisha Ebrahimi (joined 2013) – In October 2022, Aleisha was appointed Senior Policy Advisor to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales. Aleisha is a Family Law Associate Lecturer at UCL’s Faculty of Laws and a Lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris where she is convenor for her module ‘Gender and International Human Rights Law’. Aleisha holds an LLM in Transnational Law (Distinction) from King’s College London and was called to the Bar as a Lord Lowry scholar.
- Angelina Nicolaou (joined 2015) – Barrister at One Pump Court Chambers practising in immigration, inquest/inquiries and crime/prisons law. Angelina holds an LLM in International Crime and Justice (Distinction) from the United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute. Angelina is recognised in the Legal 500 as a ‘Rising Star’.
- Alamara Khwaja Bettum (joined 2017) – Joint Head of UK Legal at the child refugee charity, Safe Passage. Prior to completing her LLB law degree (First Class) from the University of London, Alamara worked for three years in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, on protection projects for refugees and internally displaced people.
- Edita Maric (joined 2021) – Legal Associate at an international organisation and holds an LLM in International Law (Distinction) from University College London.
- Margherita Parodi (joined 2021) – Legal Adviser at the Ethical Trading Initiative. Margherita holds a first class degree from the University of Bristol in Politics and International Relations, and an MSc from LSE in Human Rights (including a particular focus on business and human rights).
- Lucy McCann (joined 2021) – Barrister in public and medical law after completing pupillage in 2022. Prior to commencing pupillage, Lucy edited the Oxford University Press practitioner text, Judicial Review: Principles and Procedure (2nd ed.) and was a visiting lecturer in public law at City Law School. Lucy has prior worked as a research associate for the UN Development Programme in East Jerusalem, and volunteered as a teacher in educational partnerships and refugee camps in Nablus.
- Karima Al-Saidi (joined 2023) – Senior Associate Solicitor with specialist expertise in child protection.