Antwerp/Brussels – Solicitor General Mr Grootjans recently handed over a cheque for 20,000 Euros to Avocats Sans Frontières President Hafida Talhaoui. This donation concretises the valuable support which the lawyers of Antwerp have given to ASF for almost ten years. 

Brussels, 23 January 2012 – On the twentieth anniversary of Avocats Sans Frontières, the French-speaking Bar association of Brussels paid tribute to the NGO founded in Belgium. At the formal opening session of the Bar on 18 January, Solicitor General Buyle hailed ASF as an ‘indispensable organisation in the humanitarian sector, in the fight against impunity, and in the promotion, everywhere, of the law over brutal force.’

Brussels/Bukavu, 12 January 2012 – Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) is concerned about the surge of violence that is affecting the civilian population in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since the beginning of the year, FDLR militias have committed numerous acts of violence  in the South and North Kivu provinces, resulting in at least 45 deaths and displacement of  inhabitants. ASF stresses the need to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity.

Brussels, 9 December 2011 - On 10 December, Human Rights Day, we celebrate the 63th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. To mark the occasion, the Metro newspaper published an interview with our Executive Director, Francesca Boniotti, today.