Dear President, Dear Colleague, I am contacting you as President of the Mediation Commission of the European Bars Federation (FBE) in relation with the research being carried out from the Barcelona Bar Association since 2018. This work consisted of a comparison of different laws and mediation regulations that exist within the different Members of the…
We are pleased to let you know that we shall be organising an on-line Webinar on Thursday 1st October 2020 between 10 AM and 1 PM, which will focus on the current situation of the Legal Profession in Turkey. If you have urgent topics you would like to put on the Agenda, we would be…
Following the death of our colleague Ebru Timtik in detention in Turkey and the hospitalization in a critical condition of our colleague Nasrin SOTOUDEH in Iran, the European Bars Federation proposes to all the Bars of Europe to organise a minute of silence in honor of our Colleague, on 7 September at 12.00 pm. Enclosed…
Yesterday, Ebru Timtik passed away. It is not a death like others. She died to defend the Right to defend the prisoners in front of a Court, and to defend them following the guarantees also provided by the ECHR. She died without being able to be assisted and without the comfort of loved ones. Her battle…
#WebinarFBE | 1st October at 10 am, focused on the current situation of the #LegalProfession in #Turkey.
In case you are interested in participating to this online meeting send an email to 📩fbe@fbe.org to receive the Zoom invitation.
Check the Agenda: http://www.fbe.org/on-line-webinar-on-thursday-1st-october-2020-between-10-am-and-1-pm/
Hoy nos hemos unido al #MinutoDeSilencio convocado por la Federación de ICAs europeos, @EuropeanBars, en homenaje a la compañera #EbruTimtik, fallecida después de 238 días en huelga de hambre. Nuestra diputada @MariaSegimon ha dado lectura al comunicado conjunto:
@EuropeanBars Feferation des Barreaux d Europe merci @CNBarreaux @feral_schuhl pour l accueil , de beaux projets de collaboration droits humains Turquie 🇹🇷 Iran 🇮🇷 👏😳👍✊
❗In light of the global sanitary crisis (COVID-19), the Presidency of the FBE and @Avocats_Paris have jointly decided to postpone the #GeneralCongressFBE2020 to 18-20 of March 2021.
#MinuteDeSilence en l’honneur de faveur de nos confrères et consœurs condamnées et incarcérées.
Les Barreaux et les avocats continueront inlassablement à se battre pour faire respecter les droits fondamentaux, ici et partout, la parole de la #DéfenseLibre et #Indépendante.
Les @Avocats_Paris, aux côtés de tous leurs confrères européens, mobilisés pour rendre hommage à #EbruTimtik et soutenir tous les #avocats en danger pour avoir exercé leur profession.
#justice #NasrinSotoudeh #AytacÜnsal #FreeNasrin #LibérezNasrin
@batonnierparis @NathalieRoret
The European Bars Federation (FBE) supports Dr Denis MUKWEGE, Nobel Peace Prize winner whose life is threatened and has sent, together with other national and international organizations, an open letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations and to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The undersigned organisations have been following recent developments in the cases of human rights lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, who have been on hunger strike since February 2020. On 5 April 2020, the Turkish Day of the Lawyer, Timtik and Ünsal announced that they would persist in their hunger strike even if it leads…
The FBE International Contract Competition (the Competition) is an educational event in which young lawyers from different jurisdictions meet each other to simulate commercial contract case. The basis for the Competition is a commercial contract case which contains a situation, focused on a digital business, concerning conditions of partners that would like to cooperate. Young…
The Presidents of nine Turkish Bar Associations including those in Turkey’s largest cities of İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir in a video message called for the release of lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, who have been on a death fast since April 5, demanding a fair trial for the two attorneys. Timtik and Ünsal have…
Countries in Europe that: have signed and ratified the convention (green), among them Poland signed the convention (yellow) Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, colloquially the “Istanbul Convention” – a convention for the protection of human rights developed by the Council of Europe in to combat violence against women and…
Turkey’s Constitutional Court last days rejected an appeal for a stay of execution of a recently enacted law changing the structure of bar associations and allowing for multiple bar associations in a province. The disputed law is expected to strengthen small provincial bars at the expense of the large associations in major cities that are…
