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Concern over death threats to Colombian lawyers and human rights defenders: Joint statement
27/10/2026
Full pdf joint statement 23 October 2026 - Joint Statement: Concern over death threats against lawyers Alirio Uribe, Yessika Hoyos Morales and three MOVICE members LRWC has joined with five other international NGOs to issue a Joint Statement requiring action to protect human rights … [Read more...]
EL SALVADOR: The international legal community calls for protection guarantees for lawyer Roxana Cardona against repeated police harassment
26/10/2026
Full pdf Joint statement (EN) 23 October 2026 - Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada joins with 15 other NGOs to call for protection guarantees for Roxana Cardona, a human rights lawyer and the founder and director of the organisation Justicia Social y Contraloría Ciudadana, after numerous report … [Read more...]
LRWC, the United Nations, and the International Criminal Court | Report of LRWC activities October 2026
26/10/2026
Full pdf report LRWC, the United Nations, and the International Criminal Court Report 19 October 2026 From July to October, 2026, LRWC continued to contribute to the work of the UN Human Rights Council. LRWC also contributed to the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) … [Read more...]
International legal community condemns US sanctions against the International Criminal Court
16/10/2026
Full .pdf joint statement of 17 international legal organizations International legal community condemns US sanctions against the International Criminal Court Joint statement, 16 October 2026 The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the latest sanctions imposed by the US … [Read more...]
Canada: Urgent, concrete action needed to protect the International Criminal Court (ICC): Implement Canada’s blocking legislation against US sanctions imposed on the Court | Letter
14/10/2026
Full .pdf letter 14 October 2026 Right Hon. Mark Carney, Prime Minister Hon. Sean Fraser, Attorney General and Minister of Justice Hon. Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs Government of Canada House of Commons Ottawa ON, K1A 0A6 E-mail: mark.carney@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, … [Read more...]
Institutional sanctions against the ICC escalate the unprecedented assault on international justice | Statement of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court
09/10/2026
Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada is a member of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC). See the statement on the CICC website (EN). | Las sanciones institucionales contra la CPI agravan la ofensiva sin precedentes contra la justicia internacional (ES) UPDATE: On 12 October 2026, the … [Read more...]
Vietnam must release Norwegian and Australian human rights defenders abducted in Cambodia | Joint statement
07/10/2026
Full pdf joint statemet 7 October 2026 Vietnam must release Norwegian and Australian human rights defenders abducted in Cambodia We, the undersigned organizations, condemn in strongest possible terms the abduction of three human rights defenders by Vietnamese authorities in Cambodia and … [Read more...]
Cambodia: Halt impunity for human rights violations including transnational repression | Joint oral statement to the UN Human Rights Council
02/10/2026
Full pdf joint statement | See the statement on the UN Website | Watch the debate on WEbTV starting at 1:23:20, with LRWC's statement at 2:25:00 Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia Date: 2 … [Read more...]
United States: 38 international civil society organizations file joint amicus brief in US lawsuit challenging Trump’s ICC sanctions
24/09/2026
Full pdf release 38 international civil society organizations file joint amicus brief in US lawsuit challenging Trump’s ICC sanctions Immediate release Vancouver, 24 September 2026 – Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) has joined Amnesty International and 36 other civil society … [Read more...]
Belarus: Call on Belarusian authorities to immediately release lawyer Dmitri Laevski | Joint statement
24/09/2026
Full .pdf joint statement 16 September 2026 Lawyers for Lawyers, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, the International Observatory for Lawyers and The Law Society of England and Wales strongly condemn the conviction and imprisonment … [Read more...]
