The European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE) is a non governmental organization Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an NGO founded in December 2001, in Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

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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

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union enshrines certain political, social, and economic rights for European Union citizens and residents, into EU law. It was drafted by the European Convention and solemnly proclaimed on 7 December 2000 by the European Parliament, the Council of...

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

- 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".

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

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.

It commemorates the act by the French lawyer, Ludovic Trarieux

Ludovic Trarieux

Ludovic Trarieux was a French Republican statesman, prominent Dreyfusard, and pioneer of international human rights.-Early life:...

 (1840–1904), who founded, in 1898, in the midst of the Dreyfus Affair in France, the French Ligue des droits de l'homme

Human Rights League (France)

The Human Rights League of France, is a Human Rights NGO founded on 4 June 1898 by the republican Ludovic Trarieux to defend captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew wrongly convicted for treason - this would be known as the Dreyfus Affair...

 (LDH, "Human Rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

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The Board

Chairman :
Bertrand Favreau

Bertrand Favreau

Bertrand Favreau is a French lawyer born in Bordeaux in 1947.He is the founding president and the Charmain of The Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize....

Deputy-Chairman :
Georges-Albert Dal and
Mario Lana

General Secretary :
Christophe Pettiti

Tresurer :
Thierry Bontinck