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Event | Robert Morales: Seeking Justice Elsewhere, February 23 | Video
24/02/2012
First Nations' Rights: The Gap Between Law and Practice: A Series of Five Talks The 2011-2012 series was sponsored by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group (HTG), Amnesty International and the Vancouver Public Library: ALL TALKS IN THE SERIES: 1. Grace Woo: Ghost Dancing … [Read more...]
PRESS RELEASE: Canada Won’t Deal With Women’s Human Rights Crisis At Home
22/02/2012
Press Release: UN Committee to End Racial Discrimination Report from LRWC and BC CEDAW Group For immediate release February 22, 2012 Failure to address cases of missing and murdered Aboriginal women an international shame, say leading human rights groups (Vancouver) Canada and British … [Read more...]
Canada: Statement to the Human Rights Council on the situation of Omar Khadr in Guantánamo Bay Prison
13/02/2012
1. This statement is a follow-up of the: September/08/2008 report by LRWC and 40 other NGOs and individuals to the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights for consideration on the Universal Periodic Review of Canada; the February/15/2010 LRWC statement to the Council; and, the … [Read more...]
Obligation to investigate the prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón | Written Statement to the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
13/02/2012
Full PDF Version Official UN Version … [Read more...]
Thailand: Trials of Somyot & Chiranuch
10/02/2012
Thailand: Trials of Somyot & Chiranuch - Letter from LRWC, obs, CRD, Forum-Asia, Protection International, Clean Clothes Campaign … [Read more...]
Thailand – Upcoming trials of human rights defenders Somyot Prueksakasemsuk and Ms Chiranuch Premchaiporn
10/02/2012
Re: Thailand – Upcoming trials of human rights defenders Somyot Prueksakasemsuk and Ms Chiranuch Premchaiporn To: H.E. Yingluck Shinawatra From: LRWC, OBS, CRD, Forum-Asia, Protection International, Clean Clothes Campaign Date: 2012-02-10 We, the undersigned independent human … [Read more...]
Turkey: Police raid of NGO offices in Diyarbakir | Letter
26/01/2012
Re: Police raid of NGO offices in Diyarbakir To: Mr. Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey From: Naveen P. Mehta, LRWC Member Date: 2012-01-26 I am writing on behalf of the 250,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW), the largest private sector union in Canada, … [Read more...]
Spain: Joint statement on the trial of Judge Garzon
19/01/2012
Spain: Joint statement on the trial of Judge Garzon by LRWC, Human Rights Watch, Center for Constitutional Rights, et al. Spanish version. … [Read more...]
Canada: CERD Report on Missing Women and Murdered Women in BC and Canada
19/01/2012
Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in British Columbia and Canada. Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the occasion of its review of Canada’s 19th and 20th reports, January 2012, by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and the B.C. CEDAW … [Read more...]
