Live stream video, Chapter 7, 00:11:20 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 4, General Debate Date: 17 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers for Lawyers Speaker: Catherine Morris Oral Statement to … [Read more...]
Myanmar & Bangladesh: Rights, Dignity, and Future of Genocide Survivors at Stake | Joint Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
17/09/2019
Live stream video, Chapter 38, 01:39:49 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 4: Interactive Dialogue, Special Rapporteur on Myanmar (Oral Update) Date: 16 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers' Rights Watch … [Read more...]
South Sudan: Arbitrary Detention, Repression, and Persecution of Lawyers | Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
17/09/2019
Live stream video, Chapter 21, 00:37:23 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan Date: 16 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers' Rights Watch … [Read more...]
Arbitrary Detention of Lawyers and Defenders in China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Cameroon | Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
17/09/2019
Live stream video, Chapter 56, 01:29:37 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 3, General Debate Date: 13 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada Speaker: Felix Agbor Nkongho Oral … [Read more...]
Indonesia: Support Letter for Ms. Veronica Koman | Joint Letter
13/09/2019
Full PDF (ENG) Veronica Koman, human rights lawyer LRWC and L4L sent a joint letter calling on Indonesian authorities to withdraw criminal charges against human rights lawyer Veronica Koman, charged for disseminating information about police violence against Papuan students peacefully … [Read more...]
Human Rights Violations in Cameroon, Philippines, China, and Saudi Arabia | Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
13/09/2019
Live stream video, Chapter 74, 01:59:48 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 2, General Debate on the oral update of the High Commissioner of Human Rights Date: 10 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers' Rights Watch … [Read more...]
Saudi Arabia: Summary of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention | WGAD
13/09/2019
Full PDF Version Waleed Abu al-Khair of Saudi Arabia Summary of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Opinions on arbitrary detentions in Saudi Arabia[1] The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) in Opinions published between 2002 and 2018 identified … [Read more...]
Viet Nam: Viet Nam and the Exile of Nguyễn Văn Đài and Lê Thu Hà | Working Paper
13/09/2019
Full PDF Version Lê Thu Hà and Nguyễn Văn Đài INTRODUCTION This paper examines the right to return to and live in one’s own country as part of the right to liberty guaranteed by the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other instruments. Freedom from exile is specifically … [Read more...]
China: Open Letter on the Rule of Law in China | Joint letter
09/09/2019
Full PDF (ENG) 9 September 2019 Open letter on the rule of law in China Across the People’s Republic of China, human rights violations are a systemic reality. Over the past year, the UN has once again documented legal and policy frameworks that fail to protect against discrimination; … [Read more...]
China: Joint Letter Regarding the Revocation of Lawyer Li Jinxing’s License | Joint Letter
19/08/2019
Full PDF (ENG) August 14, 2019 Re: Joint Letter Regarding the Revocation of Lawyer Li Jinxing’s License China human rights lawyer Li Jinxing received a notice from the Shandong Provincial Department of Justice on 22 July 2019 regarding the administrative penalty of revocation of … [Read more...]
