RAUL HERNANDEZ – Mexican Indigenous Human Rights defender
29/04/2010
Raul Hernandez is a member of the Me'phaa Indigenous People's Organization (OPIM) which promotes the human right of the Me'phaa people in Guerrero State in Mexico. On April 17, 2008 he and four other OPIM members were arrested at a military checkpoint in Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero for the … [Read more...]
Wrongful detention of human rights defender Raúl Hernández
29/04/2010
Re: Wrongful detention of human rights defender Raúl Hernández To: Minister Fernando Francisco Gómez Mont Urueta & Attorney General Eduardo Murueta Urrutia From: Cara Gibbons Date: 2010-04-29 Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada marks with concern the two-year anniversary of the wrongful … [Read more...]
Pakistan: Country Monitoring Report from April 2009 to March 2010
01/04/2010
Pakistan: Country Monitoring Report from April 2009 to March 2010 by John Cotter … [Read more...]
Open letter to Spanish judiciary authorities in solidarity with Justice Baltasar Garzón
23/03/2010
Judges of the Supreme Court, Criminal chamber General Prosecutor of the State Cándido Conde-Pumpido Tourón As jurists, lawyers, judges, academics and human rights defenders of different nationalities signing below, we are writing to you in order to express our perplexity regarding the decision … [Read more...]
Myanmar/Burma: The absence of minimum conditions for elections | Written Statement to the 14th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
20/03/2010
Full PDF Version Official UN Version … [Read more...]
Cambodia: Summary Report 2009
10/03/2010
Cambodia: Summary report on the situation of lawyers and human rights defenders 2009 by LRWC … [Read more...]
Javier Torres Cruz
01/03/2010
Re: Javier Torres Cruz To: Senor Gobernador From: Prof. H. Ihmig, Gail Davidson Date: 2010-03-01 On December 22 2008 we sent you a letter denouncing the kidnapping of campesiono Javier Torres Cruz, a campesino from the community of La Morena in the Sierra de Petatlán, who testified … [Read more...]
Follow up on the independence of the human rights organization, Rights and Democracy
23/02/2010
Re: Follow up on the independence of the human rights organization, Rights and Democracy. To: Prime Minister Stephen Harper From: Catherine Morris, Gail Davidson, and Paul Copeland Date: 2010-02-23 This is further to our letter of 27 January 2010. To date, we have not received a … [Read more...]
UN Human Rights Council: Omar Khadr, LRWC Report to the 13th Session of the HRC
15/02/2010
UN Human Rights Council: Omar Khadr, LRWC Report to the 13th Session of the HRC by LRWC … [Read more...]
Independence of the human rights organization, Rights and Democracy
27/01/2010
Re: Independence of the human rights organization, Rights and Democracy To: Prime Minister Stephen Harper From: Catherine Morris, Gail Davidson, and Paul Copeland Date: 2010-01-27 LRWC has become aware of a serious concern about the independence of the human rights organization, Rights … [Read more...]
