IBA Human Rights Institute Trust
The IBA set up the IBA Human Rights Institute Trust in 2009 and this now replaces the IBA Charitable Trust as our main charitable vehicle in the United Kingdom. All donations made via member subscriptions to the IBA are now made to the new charity.
The charity will support the work of the IBA Human Rights Institute and projects that meet with its objectives to promote human rights and the administration of justice worldwide. Find out more
IBA Foundation
The IBA Foundation’s mission is to engage in a wide variety of international charitable endeavours related to the rule of law, including continuing legal education and equitable access to the legal system and, particularly in more economically disadvantaged parts of the world, infrastructure improvements, competent legal services and legal services administration. Since 1986, the foundation has funded law-related projects throughout the world.Find out more
Pat Sidley, IBA Southern Africa CorrespondentWednesday 31 March 2021
The war in Ethiopia raged largely unnoticed for months due to an information blackout. As reports of atrocities emerge,
Global Insight assesses the extent of the crisis.
Header pic: An Ethiopian boy, who fled the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region, stands in Hamdayet village, Kassala, Sudan, 15 December 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah It has been several months since the war in Ethiopia began in Tigray in November with an attack by Tigrayan forces, which attracted swift and brutal attention from Ethiopia’s military. At the time, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claimed no civilians had been killed, which has since been proven to be extremely inaccurate.
Op-Ed: Howard s classics department is an incubator for Black equality goerie.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goerie.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Howard University s classics department is an incubator for Black equality. Don t close it.
The works in the classical canon are for all of us. Within them is language to fight for equality and to embrace our full humanity.
Anika T. Prather
Opinion contributor
At a conference on using Socratic dialogue in the classroom through the Bill of Rights Institute, an attendee mentioned that the Howard University classics department, the only such department at a historically Black college or university in the country, was under the threat of being closed. My heart sank at the news.
I had just opened my own classically inspired school, The Living Water School, and was primarily focused on its success, but I could not get this news out of my mind. That conference was several years ago, but this month, the department announced it is closing and repositioning the faculty.
By Gazette reporter2021-04-19T08:36:00+01:00
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales have condemned what they describe as the ’disproportionate sentencing’ of veteran Hong Kong pro-democracy figures, including Martin Lee QC and Dr Margaret Ng, barrister. The veteran lawyers are among seven prominent figures who pleaded not guilty in February to accusations of organising and participating in an unauthorised assembly.
Dr Margaret Ng (pictured) and Martin Lee QC were given suspended prison sentences
Source: Michael Cross
Baroness Kennedy QC, director of the IBA Human Rights Institute commented: ‘Margaret Ng and Martin Lee have received several accolades for their lifelong defence of fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law. Their sentencing is unjust and represents an assault on the principles of modern democracies worldwide. It must be met with vehement condemnation by the international