Full pdf version Comply with international law obligations says LRWC IMMEDIATE RELEASE Canada and BC violate UN “injunction” while lawful protesters arrested and threatened with armed force 12 February 2020 - While peaceful protesters are arrested from coast to coast, Canada’s … [Read more...]
Turkey: Lawyer Esra Uymaz Saral released | Update
11/02/2020
Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada welcomes the release of lawyer Esra Uymaz Saral on 13 February 2020 at her first hearing of charges related to an attempted coup in 2016. Ms. Saral sent a message to LRWC saying, “We can't thank you enough for your support and solidarity.” Ms. Saral was ordered into … [Read more...]
South Sudan: UN HRC should extend the mandate of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan | Joint letter
06/02/2020
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council 6 February 2020 Re: The UN Human Rights Council should extend the mandate of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan Excellencies, We, the undersigned national, regional, and … [Read more...]
Hong Kong – International law obligation to ensure investigation of police violence | Press release
19/12/2019
Full Letter (ENG) Press Release(ENG) | Press Release (CHN) Police violence against Hong Kong protesters Photo credit: Flickr HONG KONG – International law obligation to ensure investigation by independent specialists of police violence and misconduct FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 December … [Read more...]
Hong Kong: Need for an Independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate unlawful use of force by Hong Kong Police Force and other non-state actors | Letter
19/12/2019
Full Letter (ENG) Press Release(ENG) | Press Release (CHN) Police violence against Hong Kong protesters Photo credit: Flickr 19 December 2019 Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor Chief Executive of Hong Kong Office of the Chief Executive 1 Tim Wa Avenue Tamar, Hong Kong Email: … [Read more...]
Laos & Thailand: Investigate enforced disappearances of Sombath Somphone and Od Sayavong | Joint Statement
15/12/2019
Civil society groups urge Laos, Thailand to investigate enforced disappearances, reveal fate of Sombath Somphone and Od Sayavong 15 December 2019: On the seventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Lao … [Read more...]
The Philippines: Attacks Again Lawyers Escalating | Joint statement by 151 lawyers’ organizations and lawyers
16/09/2019
Full PDF (ENG) | Full PDF (FRE) Lawyers for Lawyers, LRWC and more than 150 Bar Associations, lawyers’ organizations and members of the legal profession urge the Philippine Government to stop the extra-judicial killings of lawyers, allow investigations that ensure accountability for perpetrators … [Read more...]
Cambodia: The Roots of Cambodia’s persistent rights violations: Impunity of the powerful | Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
10/09/2019
See UN document (without references) Download UN document (pdf) Full PDF version with references … [Read more...]
Thousands of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines: “A pattern of gross and systematic violations of human rights,” say seven legal organisations to the UN | Press release
09/09/2019
Press Release_(.docx) | Press Release_(.pdf) Thousands of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines: “A pattern of gross and systematic violations of human rights,” say seven legal organisations to the UN For immediate release 9 September 2019 – Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) was … [Read more...]
Philippines: Extrajudicial killing of jurists 2006-2019 | Appendix to joint written statement to the UN Human Rights Council
09/09/2019
Link to written statement on UN website Link to written statement on LRWC website See LRWC's press release dated 9 September 2019. Note that since submission of this statement to the UN Human Rights Council, a 46th lawyer was assassinated in the Philippines on 5 September … [Read more...]
