Executive Summary: These submissions are made by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada in aid of the Committee against Torture’s (CAT) examination of the combined 3rd and 4th Periodic Report of Sri Lanka outlining its implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: 3rd and 4th Periodic Report on the Implementation of the Convention Against Torture
31/10/2011
Sri Lanka Accountability: Statement to the Human Rights Council 12 September 2011
27/09/2011
Human Rights Council: Interactive Dialogue Accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka – Recommendations of Panel of Experts. see full statement … [Read more...]
Denial of justice at the Missing Women Commission more than a shame to the country
14/09/2011
by Catherine Morris and Gail Davidson 14 September 2011 Opinion published in the Vancouver Sun, and the Victoria Times Colonist The B.C. government's refusal to provide legal representation to groups granted standing at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry is more than a national shame. It's … [Read more...]
Mexico: Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists
30/06/2011
Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists by Cara Gibbons (LRWC Mexico monitor) and Beth Spratt, on behalf of PEN Canada and the International Human Rights Program at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, 3 June 2011. Full report. SUMMARY: Corruption Impunity … [Read more...]
Independence of the Bar in Cambodia: Re KONG Sam Onn | Letter
21/05/2009
21 May 2009 Chiv Song Hak, President, Bar Council Members of the Bar Council Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia Nº. 1011Eo, Croix Rouge Khmere (St. 180) 12211 Phnom Penh Cambodia Fax 023 213 658 Email to: cilf@online.com.kh, wengkaly@yahoo.com, hbslawfirm@hotmail.com, … [Read more...]
