Canada Campaigns
Canada: Restoring the Space for Dissent in Canada | Joint Written Statement to the UN Human Rights Council
15/02/2016
LRWC full pdf Full PDF Version Official UN Version In this written submission, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) call on the Human Rights Council to continue to promote and protect the rule of law and human rights in Canada by monitoring the following … [Read more...]
Canada: Canada’s Response to the List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPR) from the UN Committee against Torture – LRWC views | Letter
21/12/2015
Full PDF Version Monday, December 21st, 2015 Human Rights Program Department of Canadian Heritage 25 Eddy Street, 4th Floor Gatineau QC K1A 0M5 Attention: Adam Côté, Ph. D. Policy Officer, Via Email to: adam.cote@canada.ca | 819-994-3670 To the Human Rights Program, … [Read more...]
Canada: LRWC’s views on Canada’s Response to the List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPR) from the UN Committee against Torture | Report
21/12/2015
Full PDF Version Monday, December 21st, 2015 Human Rights Program Department of Canadian Heritage 25 Eddy Street, 4th Floor Gatineau QC K1A 0M5 Attention: Adam Côté, Ph. D. Policy Officer, Via Email to: adam.cote@canada.ca | 819-994-3670 To the Human Rights Program, … [Read more...]
Canada: Canada’s Failure to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Report
31/10/2015
Full PDF Version CANADA’S FAILURE TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS by Gail Davidson and Rohan Shah Introduction Climate change scientific literature accepts that human activity, principally deforestation and the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels, has … [Read more...]
Canada: Canada’s Failure to Reduce Emissions: Unlawful or Above the Law? | Report
28/09/2015
Full PDF Version Canada’s Failure to Reduce Emissions: Unlawful or Above the Law? Gail Davidson and Rohan Shah Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada No matter how you look at it, Canada is a climate change laggard. Carbon dioxide emissions—the largest contributor to global warming—are now 18% … [Read more...]
Canada: NGOs Call for Improved Access to Information and Amendments to the Access to Information Act | Letter
16/09/2015
Full PDF Version Twenty Canada-based NGOs including LRWC, the BCCLA and the International Civil Liberties Association, endorsed an open letter on 15 September 2015 calling for improved access to information as a vital part of democracy. The groups called on all federal parties to support amendments … [Read more...]
Egypt: Canadian Journalist Mohamed Fahmy | Letter
08/09/2015
Full PDF Version This letter implores the Canadian government to take personal and immediate action to secure Mr. Fahmy’s deportation to Canada. … [Read more...]
Canada: Canadian Groups Call for a National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Women and Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | Joint Statement
16/06/2015
Full PDF Version Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, the Native Women’s Association of Canada, BC CEDAW Group, Feminist Alliance for International Action, and International Women's Rights Project call on the federal government to immediately adopt and implement TRC recommendation to conduct public … [Read more...]
Canada: Bill C-51 demonstrates intention to violate international human rights and must be repealed | Statement
11/06/2015
Full .pdf statement Statement 11 June 2015 Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada profoundly regrets that on 9 June 2015 the Anti-Terrorist Act, 2015 (Bill C-51) was passed by the Senate of Canada and will enter into force upon Royal Assent. The Bill was rushed through Parliament in the face of … [Read more...]
Canada: Bill C-51: grave dangers explained | Gail Davidson video statement 30 May 2015
09/06/2015
Click to watch video | Bill C-51: Grave Dangers Explained Gail Davidson, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, explains to the public the rights and freedoms which Bill C51 was designed to remove form our constitution which so many members of our past generations gave their lives fighting for. Statement … [Read more...]
