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SSA CNF Conference Rome 14 June 2012 Adrie van de Streek Attorney at Law, Amsterdam Director Lawyers for Lawyers

SSA CNF Conference Rome 14 June 2012 Adrie van de Streek Attorney at Law, Amsterdam Director Lawyers for Lawyers. WHO ARE WE.

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SSA CNF Conference Rome 14 June 2012 Adrie van de Streek Attorney at Law, Amsterdam Director Lawyers for Lawyers

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  1. SSA CNFConference Rome 14 June 2012 Adrie van de Streek Attorney at Law, Amsterdam Director Lawyers for Lawyers

  2. WHO ARE WE Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L) is an independent and non-political Dutch foundation which seeks to promote the proper functioning of the rule of law by pursuing freedom and independence of the legal profession. We do this by supporting lawyers worldwide who are threatened, hindered or suppressed in their work as a lawyer. 5-6-2014 3

  3. History Established in 1986 by Dutch section of Amnesty International with support from Dutch section of ICJ (=NJCM) and Dutch Bar Association 5-6-2014 4

  4. VISION A free and independent legal profession is crucial for the Rule of Law Lawyers should thus be able to practice law freely and independently Always and everywhere In line with international law, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers; UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders 5-6-2014 5

  5. WHAT DO WE DO We provide: - Financial support - Moral support - Legal support We create: - Awareness We promote: - Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers We stimulate: - Peer solidarity 5-6-2014 6

  6. Support • Letter writing campaigns • Fact finding missions • Trial monitoring • Lobbying • Awards • Hosting foreign lawyers at risk • Awareness campaigns 5-6-2014 7

  7. Send letters! IRAN Nasrin Sotoudeh, defended many of the human rights activists who were arrested after the presidential elections in June 2009. She also defended Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer and Nobel laureate who co-founded the Defenders for Human Rights Center. Sentenced to 6 years. Also, she was banned from practising law and travelling abroad for a period of 20 years, for allegedly undermining national security, propaganda against the regime and for not wearing a hejab (Islamic dress or headscarf). 5-6-2014 8

  8. Syria, trial observations Haitham al-Maleh Released June 2011 July 2010 three-years prison, August 2011 with Min. Rosenthal

  9. Turkye, trial observations 43 lawyers arrested in November 2011 • Filiz Kalayci, detained from 27 May 2009 until 30 januari 2010. • July 2012 trial observations for 37 lawyers who were arrested in November

  10. Lawyers for Lawyers Award Alec Muchadehama, Zimbabwe

  11. for an overview of Lawyers recently supported by L4L go to: http://www.advocatenvooradvocaten.nl/gallery/

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