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Turkey: Lawyer Ramazan Demir Wins IBA Human Rights Award
13/10/2017
Turkish human rights lawyer Ramazan Demir is the recipient of the 2017 IBA Human Rights Award. Ramazan Demir has been jailed and prosecuted twice for providing legal representation in high profile cases to lawyers and journalists facing charges because of their legitimate professional activities. … [Read more...]
Canada/USA: Boyle/Coleman Family Rescued
12/10/2017
News flash – BOYLE/COLEMAN FAMILY RESCUED IN PAKISTAN. Announcing the very happy news of the release of Joshua Boyle, Caitlan Coleman and their three infant children. Boyle and Coleman were taken hostage in Afghanistan by the Haqqani network in October 2012. The three children were born in … [Read more...]
Pakistan: Ensure Thorough, Competent, Impartial and Effective Investigation of the Murders of Bilal Anwar Kasi and Victims Sandeman Civil Hospital Quetta Bombing | Letter
12/10/2017
Full PDF Version Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Mr. Mamnoon Hussain President of Pakistan President's Secretariat Islamabad PAKISTAN Tel: +92 51 9204801, +92 51 9214171 Fax: +92 51 9207458 Email: publicmail@president.gov.pk Mr. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Prime Minister Prime … [Read more...]
Israel: Immediately Release Palestinian Lawyer Muhammed Allan, and End Use of Military Courts to Try Palestinian Citizens | Letter
12/10/2017
Full PDF Version Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister’s Office 3 Kaplan St. Hakirya Jerusalem 91950 Israel Tel: 972-2-6705555 Fax: 972-2-5664838 pm_eng@pmo.gov.il Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan The Ministry of Public … [Read more...]
Canada: LBWC and LRWC Joint Submission for the Universal Period Review, Third Cycle
10/10/2017
Full PDF Version LRWC and Lawyers Without Borders/Canada in Joint Submissions for consideration on the third Universal Periodic Review/Canada recommend that Canada: Ensure protection of rights and access to remedies for people negatively affected by the activities of Canadian corporations … [Read more...]
Canada: Reforms to Access to Information Act Inadequate to Ensure Right to Access to Information | Joint Letter with 35 Organizations
28/09/2017
Full PDF Version On International Right to Know Day, 28 September, the Centre for Law and Democracy released an open letter to Canada calling for the promised reform of Canada’s 35-year old Access to Information Act and rejecting Bill C-58 amendments as wholly inadequate. The letter, endorsed by … [Read more...]
States Must Cooperate with UN Technical Assistance In Ensuring Independence and Integrity of Legal Profession | Joint Oral Statement to the 36th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
28/09/2017
Full PDF Version Video Stream Available (Chapter 37, at 01:06:02) Check Against Delivery Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and Lawyers for Lawyers Item: Item 10 – General Debate: Technical assistance and capacity-building Date: 28 … [Read more...]
Argentina: Alberto Nisman Death Found to be Murder
28/09/2017
A team of 28 experts has concluded in a 14 September 2017 report that Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered on 18 January 2015 by a gunshot to the head and did not die by suicide as claimed by Argentine authorities. Nisman was the Special Prosecutor in the investigation of the 1994 bombing … [Read more...]
Cambodia: Cooperate with Human Rights Council Special Procedures Mandate Holders | Oral Statement to the 36th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
28/09/2017
Full PDF Version Video Stream Available (Chapter 25, at 01:06:57) Check Against Delivery Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: Item 10 – Interactive dialogue on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights … [Read more...]
