International Human Rights

Whether at a national or international level or even when part of a geopolitical struggle, 9BR Chambers fight clients’ cases through their extensive experience, assisting other states’ lawyers and also training judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers.

9BR Chambers counsel have extensive experience in human rights and civil liberties litigation. This ranges  in regional to international institutions including: the United Nations Special Procedure Mechanisms and treaty bodies, the European Court of Human Rights, the African Court and African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Inter-American Court and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Our work encompasses all protected rights including: right to life, prohibition of torture inhuman and degrading treatment, freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom from arbitrary detention, women’s rights, business and human rights and economic, cultural and social rights.

Clients often engage us to assist their national lawyers. We provide additional expertise and assistance to challenge cases in their national jurisdictions and elevate their case before the international agencies charged with the duty of ensuring States uphold the Rule of Law and human rights. These situations often arise in states where the Rule of Law has been subverted to serve the aims of the executive and are part of a geo-political struggle.

Members also prepare and conduct trainings in international human rights law and litigation for judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers. Recent trainings have been held in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Bangladesh, Somaliland, Lebanon and the Philippines.