Case filed against Greece in Strasbourg Court over crackdown on humanitarian organisations
Following a two-and-a-half-year legal ordeal in Greek courts, Salam Kamal-Aldeen, founder of the non-profit Team Humanity, has filed an...
GLAN BLOG
- Mar 7, 2019
Crowdfund launched in support of legal bid to resist land grab and airport construction in Barbuda
Visit our crowdfund page and consider donating. CLICK HERE Summary The people of Barbuda, part of the larger state of Antigua and...
- Feb 4, 2019
GLAN and Bellingcat host open source intelligence experts to investigate air-strikes in Yemen
In late January 2019, GLAN and Bellingcat brought together world leading investigative journalists, technologists, and lawyers to combine...
- Jan 15, 2019
Development bank panel to proceed with complaint from DR Congo communities on palm oil project
The panel of the complaints mechanism for the German, Dutch and French development banks has ruled that a complaint submitted on 5...
- Nov 13, 2018
Launch of collaboration with Manchester International Law Clinic
A new partnership between GLAN and Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) at University of Manchester School of Law has been...
- Nov 8, 2018
Criminal complaint against Dutch firm for allegedly profiting from exploitation of North Koreans
Summary A North Korean labourer who endured years of slave-like conditions working for Polish company ‘Crist S.A.’, a supplier of a Dutch...
- Nov 7, 2018
DRC communities’ land rights case submitted to Development Bank’s independent complaints procedure
Nine communities from the Democratic Republic of Congo have this week filed a complaint to the German Development Bank (DEG) over a...
- Oct 24, 2018
Complaint filed against Irish oil company for business dealings in annexed Western Sahara
The Global Legal Action Network has submitted a formal complaint against San Leon Energy PLC today (24/10/2018) for violating the human...
- Sep 17, 2018
Guest post: Barbudans forced off island to privatise commons.
The people of Barbuda have always held their land in common. That land tenure system is now being threatened by financiers and their...
- Sep 13, 2018
Presentation to German Parliament on Mediterranean abuse & targeting of human rights defenders
GLAN members Dr. Violeta Moreno-Lax and Dr. Itamar Mann appeared before members of the German parliament today, to address migrant...