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PBIAustralia

  1. Interesting convo going on at @newtactics at the moment about human rights archiving buff.ly/JvpjPc
  2. Thanks to everyone involved in an inspirational night about human rights lawyers at risk. #lawweek pbiaustralia.org #auslaw
  3. Lawyers collective in Colombia could not continue without physical and political protection which PBI offers. #lawweek
  4. Question to Colombian lawyer about role of PBI and what international community can do to help #lawweek
  5. Debbie Mortimer SC asking Colombian lawyer about its work with indigenous groups- work is widespread & on the right to life & land #lawweek
  6. Concept of 'Legal war' has been around since 2010. 2 women associated with lawyers collective kidnapped earlier this year. #lawweek
  7. Colombian lawyer describing current phase as "judicial war" against human rights. #lawweek
  8. Lawyers collective in Colombia have experienced all these patterns except having members killed. #lawweek
  9. Colombian lawyer describing patterns of judicial and extra-judicial persecution against lawyers, unionists, land rights activists. #lawweek
  10. She works in context of widespread and constant persecution in Colombia. Surveillance by security forces, stigmitisation by state #lawweek
  11. 70 pple listening to a Colombian human rights lawyer via Skype as describe her work and the threats she faces. #lawweek #auslaw
  12. Hearing from a brave human rights lawyer in Bogota, Colombia at the PBI #lawweek event. Lawyering in the midst of a 50 year civil conflict.