2025: Belarus

24 January 2025: 15th International Day for Lawyers in Danger, dedicated to Belarus 24 January 2025 marks the 15th International Day for Lawyers in Danger. Since 2009, this event, celebrated simultaneously in many cities around the world, has drawn attention to the threats faced by the legal profession. This year, the situation of lawyers in […]

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2024: Iran

On 24 January 2024, the 14th World Day of the Lawyer in Danger will be held, dedicated to the legal profession in Iran. Since 2009, this World Day has been marked in several cities, countries and continents around the world on 24 January. On this day, in 1977, we commemorate the “Atocha Massacre“, in which four colleagues were murdered in Madrid, Calle Atocha 55. This is an […]

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2023: Afghanistan

Every year on the 24th of January, the International Day of the Lawyer in Danger mobilises the international community on the difficulties and threats to the practice of law. The situation of lawyers in Afghanistan was chosen for the year 2023. Lawyers have been targeted since the Taliban government took power on 15th of August 2021. The impossibility or […]

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2022: Colombia

UN CONTEXTO NACIONAL CONFLICTIVO Colombia está marcada por profundas crisis. Durante más de 50 años ha sufrido un conflicto armado interno en el que participan el Estado, los paramilitares, la guerrilla y los narcotraficantes. Colombia también se enfrenta a una grave crisis social, con una sociedad fuertemente dividida y grandes desigualdades. Esta situación conlleva numerosas […]

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