Canada: Statement to the Human Rights Council on the situation of Omar Khadr in Guantánamo Bay Prison

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...]

Spain: Statement to the Human Rights Council: Obligation to investigate the prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón

Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) Statement to the Human Rights Council: Obligation to investigate the prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón (Garzón) for opening an investigation of 114, 266 unresolved enforced disappearances and extra-judicial executions (disappearances) by the Franco regime … [Read more...]

Obligation to investigate the prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón | Written Statement to the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

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Thailand: Trials of Somyot & Chiranuch

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

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

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

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

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...]

Burma: Restore professional licenses of thirty-two lawyers

Re: Restore professional licenses of thirty-two lawyers To: U Tun Tun Oo, Chief Justice, Office of the Supreme Court From: LRWC and Lawyers for Lawyers Date: 2012-01-17 Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) is a committee of lawyers who promote human rights and the rule of law … [Read more...]

Event | Grace Woo: Ghost Dancing with Colonialism, 12 January | Video

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...]