INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INC

INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INC International Fair Trial Day and the Ebru Timtik Award In 2021, a group of lawyers and lawyers’ organisations came together to establish an annual International Fair Trial Day (IFTD) to be observed every year on 14 June. This initiative is supported by more than 100 legal associations across the world, all of which are committed to the vital importance of the right to a fair trial and the serious challenges to due process rights worldwide. They established a Steering Group for the organization of IFTD. The Steering Group agreed that in each subsequent year, one country --where fair trial rights are being systemically violated-- would be chosen as the focus country, and an event would be organized to mark IFTD, as well as a series of advocacy initiatives around the event to draw attention to the situation in that country. The decision to establish an IFTD was also accompanied by the establishment of the Ebru Timtik Award. Ebru Timtik is a lawyer from Turkey who lost her life on 27 August 2020 as a result of a 238-day hunger strike she undertook to protest against the systemic violations of fair trial rights which people in Turkey are facing. Every year, on the occasion of the IFTD, the Ebru Timtik Award is made by an independent jury to an individual or individuals and/or an organisation who have or which has made a significant contribution to the defence and promotion of the right to a fair trial in the focus country. An artwork is dedicated each year to that year’s award, developed by an individual artist or as a collaborative effort, with the support and guidance of the Steering Group’s art advisor, Işın Önol, https://isinonol.com/. VIEW DETAILS.