European Bar Human Rights Institute

The European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE) is a non governmental organization European NGO founded in December 2001, in Luxembourg.

History

Created in 2001, the European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE) has as its objective: - the monitoring of human rights protection particularly under the European Convention of Human Rights of November 4, 1950 and its Protocols as well as the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

- the training of lawyers in international human rights law particularly relating to the rights of the defence before the international jurisdiction and criminal courts.^[1]

- interventions, regardless of the limitations of borders, in favour of freedom and the fundamental rights of lawyers with its World Observatory for Defence Rights and attacks against lawyers : "Attorney Urgent Alert".^[2]

- the organisation of workshops, symposia and seminars related to publications on international human rights law.^[3]

Main activities

The IDHAE participates, in partnership by other institutes members, to the granting "The Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize" awarded every year to " a lawyer, regardless of nationality or Bar, who thoroughout his career has illustrated, by his activity or his suffering, the defence of human rights, the promotion of defence rights, the supremacy of law, and the struggle against racism and intolerance in any form ". The award is presented every year in a city that is home to one of the member Institutes.^[4]

It commemorates the act by the French lawyer, Ludovic Trarieux (1840–1904), who founded, in 1898, in the midst of the Dreyfus Affair in France, the French Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH, "Human Rights League").

Board

Chairman : Bertrand Favreau

Deputy-Chairman : Georges-Albert Dal and Mario Lana

General Secretary : Christophe Pettiti

Tresurer : Thierry Bontinck

External links

• Official site

References