Land sustains life and is an essential economic resource. As soon as rights to land are threatened, so are the livelihoods and lives of the women, men and communities depending on it. Across the world today, 2.5 billion women and men depend on indigenous and community lands covering more than… Read more
Please do take a moment to read our Annual Report for 2018, which you can download here: Annual Report 2018. Read more
On Wednesday 28 November, Lawyers Against Poverty hosted a discussion on the tools we can use most effectively to advance and assert women’s rights. We heard firstly from Naomi Passman, one of the members of our women’s rights working group. As an introduction, she shared with us a series… Read more
Calling all Just Lawyers! We need your help to create more content for our website. We are holding our next conference call at 8.30 am on Wednesday 5 December; join us for an update on our progress and new initiatives as well as to create some new material on areas… Read more
Many women in the world today suffer disadvantage and discrimination, marginalisation and violence. One in three will experience some form of domestic violence in their lifetime and only 52% of women who are married or in a relationship freely make decisions about contraception and healthcare. Globally, 750 million women… Read more
On Monday 15 October, Lawyers Against Poverty hosted a discussion at Simmons & Simmons on the theme of what lawyers can do in aid of refugees. We heard from Professor Alexandra Xanthaki, Research Director at Brunel Law School, who established an initiative whereby students can offer their assistance as volunteers… Read more
Calling all Just Lawyers! We need your help to create more content for our website. We are holding our next conference call at 8.30 am on Wednesday 3 October; join us for an update on our progress and new initiatives as well as to create some new material on… Read more
What Can We Do To Help Refugees? Lawyers Against Poverty is launching a new initiative intended to increase awareness of refugee rights issues among the wider legal community and encourage collaborative action to support refugees overseas as well as in the UK. Come to our event on Monday 15 October… Read more
On 13 June 2018, Just Lawyers was launched on the first day of the Law Society’s In-House Division Conference. Our panel of speakers – Nikki Elliot (Co-Chair of Lawyers Against Poverty’s In-House Thematic Group), Mark Maurice-Jones (General Counsel at Nestlé), Claire Mortimer (Assistant Legal Adviser at the Foreign Office) and… Read more
This is the third in a series of case studies about the work of the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) in Lesvos. Mahmoud is a refugee from Syria and was detained on arrival into Greece. He was a victim of torture and severely traumatised. Despite this, however, he did not… Read more
