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Vietnam: Letter Regarding Mr. Le Quoc Quan and his upcoming trial on 9 July 2013 | Letter
01/07/2013
Full PDF Version The trial of charges widely viewed as illegitimate against Le Quoc Quan is scheduled for July 9, 2013. In response to advice that the presence of international observers may encourage the Vietnamese Government to respect their international human rights obligations, LRWC and … [Read more...]
United States: Ms. Lynne Stewart — Approval of Motion for Release on compassionate grounds | Letter
27/06/2013
Full PDF Version Mr. Charles E. Samuels, Jr., Director Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street, NW Washington, DC 20534 United States of America Fax: (202) 514-6620; Email: info@bop.gov Dear Sir; Re: Ms. Lynne Stewart: Approval of Motion for Release on compassionate … [Read more...]
Bahrain: Freedom of Assembly in Bahrain: Domestic law and practice violates international law obligations | Report
14/06/2013
LRWC prepared a brief, endorsed by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights expressing concern with the continuing wrongful arrest, prosecution, conviction and sentencing of human rights advocates in Bahrain for peacefully exercising their internationally … [Read more...]
Zimbabwe: Wrongful arrest and prosecution of lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa | Letter
13/06/2013
In March human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa was arrested and detained for 8 nights after asking police for a search warrant and an inventory during a raid of her client’s premises. Charges of defeating and / or obstructing the course of justice under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) were … [Read more...]
Vietnam: Joint Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Viet Nam | Joint Report
13/06/2013
Lawyers for Lawyers, the Law Society of England and Wales and LRWC filed a report for the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam. The use of arbitrary arrests, malicious prosecutions, imprisonment and disbarment to silence human rights lawyers, is the focus of this joint report. Cited as examples of … [Read more...]
Russia: Threats Against Lawyers Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov | Letter
09/06/2013
Criminal defence lawyers Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov received death threats in May 2013 in connection with their work in the North Caucasus republicof Dagestan. These text message threats were designed to discourage them from representing the families of five men killed in March 2012. The … [Read more...]
Canada: Indigenous Law as a Solution to Resource Conflict in Treaty 8 | Video
04/06/2013
In this 4-part series, Caleb Behn examines conflict and environmental degradation associated with natural gas extraction in Treaty 8 in northeastern BC which sits atop the second largest hydrocarbon deposit in the world. Mr. Behn discusses the ramifications of a number of threatening factors: a … [Read more...]
Corporations and Human Rights: Oral Intervention at the UN Human Rights Council | Statement
31/05/2013
UN Webcast (see 55 at 02:42:02) | PDF version Item: Item 3 Interactive Dialogue Speaker: Paulo de Tarso Lugon Arantes Date: Friday 31 May 2013 Re: Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises Oral Statement to … [Read more...]
Canada: Oral Intervention at the UN Human Rights Council on Legal Aid in Canada | Statement
30/05/2013
PDF Version | UN Webcast (see 7 at 00:19:45) Item: Item 3 Interactive Dialogue Speaker: Paulo de Tarso Lugon Arantes Date: Thursday, 30 May 2013 Re: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Oral Statement to the 23rd Session of the UN Human Rights … [Read more...]
United States: Human Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Letter Regarding Release on Compassionate Grounds | Letter
28/05/2013
Full PDF Version U.S. human rights attorney Lynne Stewart, sentenced to 10 years in prison for speaking to the media on behalf of her client, is now terminally ill. When she was sentenced in 2010, the potentially curative surgery (out-of-prison) scheduled for the following week was … [Read more...]
