New Webinar – Human Rights In The Media – Book Now

Human rights in the media

20 May 2025, 1300-1400 BSTA webinar presented by the IBA’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) in association with the Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA)

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA) are pleased to be co-hosting a virtual panel discussion in the month of World Press Freedom Day on how human rights are reported and represented in the media.

The panel will be co-chaired by Shoaib M Khan (Chair of HRLA) and Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC (Director of IBAHRI), and will welcome leading practitioners, media law academics and legal journalists to discuss the critical role of the media in shaping how human rights are represented, the importance of a free press in exposing human rights violations and the power and responsibility of the media to hold the powerful to account and advance human rights-based narratives.

Moderators:

• Shoaib M Khan, Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales 
• Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, IBAHRI

Speakers:

• Dr Felicity Gerry KC, Barrister, Libertas Chambers
• Professor Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos, Head of Law School, City St George’s, University of London
• Adam Wagner KC, Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers and Founder, EachOther

This webinar is free for everyone to attend. Places are limited, register now to secure your place.

Certificates of attendance for each session will be provided, automatically, to all delegates who have registered in advance and attended the live broadcast for a minimum of 30 minutes based on verified sign-in and sign-out times. Certificates can only be issued to the name provided at the time of registration.

If you have any queries relating to your Certificate of Attendance, please email webinars@int-bar.org.