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Ontario Lawyers Gazette
  Defending Human Rights
Houle, Elizabeth A.
  Advocating for Human Rights Defenders Around the World
Asian Legal Resource Centre
  Asia: Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka human rights situation denounced by ALRC and LRWC (Word)
ALRC
  Asia: Joint Oral Statement to UNHRC re: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal (Word)
Lawyers for Lawyers
  Attacks on Jurists: 2003-2009 by Lawyers for Lawyers (PDF)
Isabela Piacentini de Andrade
  Brazil: Independence and Safety of Judges and Lawyers (PDF)
Brenda Belak
  Burma Report (Word)
C. A. Morris, B.A., LL.B., LL.M
  Cambodia: Concerns about independence of lawyers and judges: Trends from 2004 - 2009 (PDF) (PDF)
Heidi Fraser-Kruck
  Canada’s Failure to Support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: an intersectional analysis of the repercussions as seen through the inter-woven lenses of women’s rights, environmental rights, and poverty alleviation (PDF)
Houle, Elizabeth A.
  Canadian Group takes Up Defense of International Human Rights Advocates
Dlab, Dagmar
  Canadian Lawyers Defend the Independence of the Bar in Malaysia
Clive Ansley
  China: Chinese Courts: Western Governments and the Spirit of Berlin 1936 (PDF)
Clive M. Ansley, B.A., LL.B., M.A., LL.M.
  China: Present Realities and Continuing Trends in the Chinese \"Judicial System\" (PDF)
Kelliher, Steven
  Creating an International Criminal Bar for the International Criminal Court
Claire L\'Heureux-Dubé
  Development of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Word)
LRWC
  Duty of States to Investigate Extra-Judicial Killings (PDF)
Paulo Arantes
  Food Crisis: Special Session of the Human Rights Council Report (Word)
Wilhelmson, Michael
  Foreign role seen in end to Malaysian lawyer's prosecution
Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation
  From Facts to Action: Report on the Attack Against Filipino Lawyers and Judges (PDF)
Isabel Stramwasser, B.A., LL.B. and Brenda J. Wemp
  Guatemala: Attacks on Jurists, 2005 - 2009 (PDF)
Brenda Wemp
  Guatemala: Justice under Seige/Report on a Field Visit to Guatemala February-March 2006 (Word)
Morris Chochla
  Haiti Report (PDF)
Shireen Sondhi
  Hina Jilani: Summary of Reports on Human Rights Defenders (PDF)
Schabas, William
  Human Rights and the Reaction to Terrorism
International Association of People’s Lawyers
  International Association of People’s Lawyers Fact Finding Mission in Brazil, December 1-4, 2008. (PDF)
Davidson, Gail
  International law and Afghanistan
Tina Parbhakar
  Iran County Report 2006 (Word)
Tina Prabhakar
  Iran: Attacks on Lawyers in Iran over the past 6 years (2004-2009) (PDF)
Dennis Edney, Nathan J. Whitling
  Khadr v. Canada: Memorandum or Argument for the Applicant Omar Khadr (PDF)
Davidson, Gail, Friesen, Tami and Jackson, Michael Q.C.
  Lawyers and the rule of law on trial - sedition in Malaysia
Shireen Sondhi
  Leandro Despouy: Summary of Reports on Independence of Judges and Lawyers (PDF)
Matas, David
  Litigating International Human Rights
Copeland, Paul
  LRWC Burma Country Report: April 2005
Neun, Heather, B.A.,MPhil, LL.B
  LRWC Colombia Country Report: April 2005
Morris, Catherine, BA, LLB, LLM
  LRWC Nepal Country Report: April 2005
Morris, Catherine BA, LLB, LLM
  LRWC Sudan Country Report: April 2005
Wilhelmson, Michael
  Malaysian lawyer's prosecution should raise alarm bells here, says B.C. law society president
Monique Pongracic-Speier and Morgan Boyco
  Mexico: Patterns of Abuse against Advocate, Chart (Word)
Monique Pongracic-Speier and Morgan Boyco
  Mexico: Patterns of Abuse against Advocate, Report (Word)
Fara McLaren
  Omar Khadr: The Continuing Scandal of Illegal Detention and Torture (PDF)
LRWC
  Pakistan: LRWC applauds courageous integrity of Pakistan lawyers (PDF)
Cara Gibbons
  Pakistan: LRWC repeats call for the reinstatement of Chief Justice Chaudhry (Word)
Cara Gibbons
  Pakistan: LRWC welcomes Supreme Court decision in Chaudhry case
National Union of People\'s Lawyers
  Philippines: International Association of Democratic Lawyers Joint Oral Presentation to UNHRC (Word)
LRWC
  Philippines: LRWC and ALRC condemn massacre and call for international inquiry (PDF)
Kelliher, Steven
  Pieces Falling into Place for the International Criminal Bar
Gibbs, Richard C., Q.C.
  President's View: No guts, no allegory
Leo McGrady Q.C.
  Protesters Guide to the Law of Civil Disobedience in BC. Olympic Edition (PDF)
Dlab, Dagmar
  Rebuilding Sierra Leone's Law Library
Matas, David
  Remedies for Victims Abroad - Remarks to the Seminar on the International Criminal Court for Victims of Human Rights Violations in Asia February 27, 2004, Manila, Philippines
David Gibbons
  Report on Attacks against Advocates in the Philippines (PDF)
Davidson, Gail
  REPORT ON THE DIGNA OCHOA MURDER INVESTIGATION
Maureen Webb
  Security Integration and Rights Disintegration In the Post 9-11 World (PDF)
Michael Jackson QC
  Shaping the National Stage for a New Era of Rights (PDF)
Pongracic-Speier, Monique
  Sierra Leone Law Libraries Project: Final Report, 25 April 2005.
Howard Rubin
  Singapore: Addendum: Chee Soon Juan Trial (PDF)
Howard Rubin and Gail Davidson
  Singapore: Defamation in Singapore: In the Matter of J.B. Jeyaretnam (PDF)
Kelley Bryan and Howard Rubin
  Singapore: Misuse of Bankruptcy in Singapore (PDF)
Kelley Bryan
  Singapore: Rule of Law in Singapore: Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession (PDF)
Harini Savilingam
  Sri Lanka: Country Monitor Report (PDF)
Harini Sivalingam, Hons, B.A., LL.B., LL.M.
  Sri Lanka: General Trends Concerning the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (PDF)
Michael Macaulay
  Syria: LRWC troubled by sentencing of Beirut-Damascus Declaration signatories
Michael Macaulay
  Syria: The Need to Reform Monitoring of States of Emergency (PDF)
Matthew Stacey
  The Duty of the Philippines Government to Investigate Extra-judicial Killings, 27, Sept. 2007 (Word)
Matthew Stacey
  The Duty of the Philippines Government to Investigate Extra-judicial Killings, Sept. 2007 (Word)
McAlpine, John, Q.C.
  The Homicide of Digna Ochoa
LRWC
  UN Human Rights Council: Concerns about the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession in Cambodia. LRWC Report (PDF)
LRWC
  UN Human Rights Council: Need for a Non-derogable Right to Independent Courts. LRWC Report (PDF)
LRWC
  UN Human Rights Council: Universal Periodic Review of Canada: Duty to Protect Omar Khadr. LRWC Report (PDF)
LRWC
  UN Human Rights Council: Universal Periodic Review of China: No Independent Courts, LRWC Report (PDF)
LRWC
  UN Human Rights Council: Unlawful Emergency Measures in Pakistan, LRWC Report to 7th Session of UNHRC (PDF)
LRWC
  UNHRC.12th.Session.Sri.Lanka.Statement.LRWC.Sept.22.09 (PDF)
Isabela Piacentini and Lois Leslie
  UNHRC: Report on LRWC attendance at the 16th Annual Meeting of Special Procedures - Open Meeting with NGOs and NHRIs held in Geneva from June 29 to July 3, 2009. (PDF)
Lois Leslie
  UNHRC: Report on LRWC attendance at the Third session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, 3-7 August 2009 (PDF)
Gwillim, Hugh
  United Kingdom government must institute an inquiry under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act of 1921 ("1921 Act") into the 1989 murder in Northern Ireland of lawyer Patrick Finucane: Open letter to Prime Minister Blair and Attorney General Goldsmith
Leandro Despouy, United Nations Special Rapporteur
  United Nations Human Rights Council: Independence of Judges and Lawyers (PDF)
Houle, Elizabeth A.
  Vancouver lawyer doubts 'suicide' of Mexican human rights lawyer
Jacob, Stephen
  World Responds to Murder of Digna Ochoa, leading human rights lawyer
Jennifer Meyer
  Zimbabwe Report (Word)
Charles B. Davison
  Zimbabwe: Attacks on Lawyers, 2006 to 2009 (PDF)

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