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Illicit financial flows – a violation of human rights? IBAHRI task force
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The IBAHRI has convened a task force to analyse how illicit financial flows, and specifically the proceeds of tax evasion, impact on poverty and subsequently affect the enforcement of economic-socio and cultural rights (ESCR). Read more

 

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Thomas Pogge, Professor at Yale University, USA (Task Froce Chair)

 

Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
 

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PRESS RELEASES

FILMS & PODCASTS

Harassment of Judge Afiuni’s lawyers, José Amalio Graterol and Thelma Fernandez alarming to IBAHRI, 24 April 2012

The IBAHRI is alarmed by reports emanating from Venezuela of harassment of the lawyers representing the incarcerated judge, María Lourdes Afiuni. Read more


Sao Paulo Public Defender’s Office to distribute 5,000 copies of IBAHRI combating torture training manual across Brazil, 04 April 2012

Public defenders across Brazil are to be equipped with the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) manual Protecting Brazilians against Torture: A Manual for Judges, Prosecutors, Public Defenders and Lawyers. Read more

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Haitham al-Maleh, Syrian lawyer and human rights activist

The IBA interviews leading Syrian political activist and former judge, who has been arrested several times for speaking out against the government.Watch now

 


Juan Mendez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

Juan Mendez speaks to the IBA following the publication of the IBAHRI manual on combating torture in Brazil, October 2011. Watch now.


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IBAHRI Annual Report 2011
   
Combating Torture in Brazil, Manual for Judges and Lawyers 2011
   
Human Rights and Parliaments: Handbook for Members and Staff 2011
   
International Criminal Law Manual 2010
   
Human Rights Fact-Finding Guidelines 2010
   
UN / IBA Human Rights in the Administration of Justice Manual 2002
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Justice at a Crossroads: The Legal Profession and the Rule of Law in the New Egypt

 

IBAHRI fact-finding report, November 2011 More

Zimbabwe: time for a new approach

IBAHRI fact-finding report, September 2011 More

Russia: The Khodorkovsky Trial

IBAHRI trial observation report, September 2011 More

 

 

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