Filipino Human Rights Lawyer to Address Liberty Hall Meeting
Filipino human rights lawyer, Edre Olalia, will address a meeting in Room 207, Liberty Hall at 7.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 28th February. He will provide an up-date on the current political and human rights situation in the Philippines including an account of his efforts to establish the whereabouts of two students who were abducted by security forces over five years ago and to bring their kidnappers to justice.
Edre currently serves as Secretary General of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) in the Philippines, President of the International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) and member of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL).
He has appeared several times before the UN Human Rights Council, special mechanisms and UN special rapporteurs and representatives. He has assisted in the special hearings on extra-judicial killings and disappearances before the pertinent committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives and also in filing successful complaints against extra-judicial killings before the UN Human Rights Committee.
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