Thailand – Upcoming trials of human rights defenders Somyot Prueksakasemsuk and Ms Chiranuch Premchaiporn

Re: Thailand – Upcoming trials of human rights defenders Somyot Prueksakasemsuk and Ms Chiranuch Premchaiporn To: H.E. Yingluck Shinawatra From: LRWC, OBS, CRD, Forum-Asia, Protection International, Clean Clothes Campaign Date: 2012-02-10 We, the undersigned independent human … [Read more...]

Turkey: Police raid of NGO offices in Diyarbakir | Letter

Re: Police raid of NGO offices in Diyarbakir To: Mr. Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey From: Naveen P. Mehta, LRWC Member Date: 2012-01-26 I am writing on behalf of the 250,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW), the largest private sector union in Canada, … [Read more...]

Spain: Joint statement on the trial of Judge Garzon

Spain: Joint statement on the trial of Judge Garzon by LRWC, Human Rights Watch, Center for Constitutional Rights, et al. Spanish version. … [Read more...]

Canada: CERD Report on Missing Women and Murdered Women in BC and Canada

Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in British Columbia and Canada. Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the occasion of its review of Canada’s 19th and 20th reports, January 2012, by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and the B.C. CEDAW … [Read more...]

Burma: Restore professional licenses of thirty-two lawyers

Re: Restore professional licenses of thirty-two lawyers To: U Tun Tun Oo, Chief Justice, Office of the Supreme Court From: LRWC and Lawyers for Lawyers Date: 2012-01-17 Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) is a committee of lawyers who promote human rights and the rule of law … [Read more...]

Event | Grace Woo: Ghost Dancing with Colonialism, 12 January | Video

First Nations' Rights: The Gap Between Law and Practice: A Series of Five Talks The 2011-2012 series was sponsored by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group (HTG), Amnesty International and the Vancouver Public Library. ALL TALKS IN THE SERIES: 1. Grace Woo: Ghost Dancing … [Read more...]

Cambodia: Revise or Abandon Draft NGO Law | Joint Press Release

full statement PDF Joint Statement by Human Rights Watch, Global Witness, Freedom House, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Article 19, Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Civil Rights Defenders, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, Centre for Law and Democracy, … [Read more...]

Cambodia: Fourth Draft Law on Associations and NGOs | Joint Letter by LRWC and CLD

View PDF: Cambodia: Fourth Draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations by LRWC and CLD 21 December 2011 H.E. Hun Sen Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia Fax: +855 23 36 06 66 / 855 23 88 06 24 (c/o Council of Ministers) Email: … [Read more...]

Turkey: Call for the release and the end of judicial harassment against lawyers | Joint letter

Re: Call for the release and the end of judicial harassment against lawyers To: Mr. Abdullah Gül, President, and Mr. Sadullah Ergin, Minister of Justice Republic of Turkey From: International Federation for Human Rights, LRWC, the World Organisation Against Torture, the Conférence … [Read more...]

Philippines: Increasing cases of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings

Re: Increasing cases of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings To: His Excellency Benigno Simeon Aquino III From: Mable Elmore; Dr. Nora Angeles; Leo Alejandria; Joe Barrett; Fr. Conrado Beloso; Jay Catalan; Gail Davidson; Susan Draper; Jim Edmondson; David B. Fairey; Rev. Expedito … [Read more...]