Press Releases
29 NGOs Submit Letter to Newly Appointed Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond Urging A Change of Policy on Bahrain | Press Release
24/07/2014
Full PDF Version 29 NGOs submit letter to newly appointed Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, urging a change of policy on Bahrain 16 July 2014, London – A group of 29 NGOs have sent a letter to the newly appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Phillip Hammond, … [Read more...]
Thailand: Judicial Harassment of Human Rights Defender, Mr. Andy Hall. Court hearing 2 July 2014 | Statement
30/06/2014
Full PDF Version Thailand: Judicial harassment of human rights defender, Mr. Andy Hall Court hearing 2 July 2014 Statement 29 June 2014 Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) is a committee of Canadian lawyers who promote human rights and the rule of law through advocacy, education and … [Read more...]
Viet Nam: Le Quoc Quan on Hunger Strike | Press Release
13/02/2014
Full PDF Version PRESS RELEASE 13 February 2014 Vietnamese Lawyer and Blogger Le Quoc Quan on Hunger Strike Appeal trial scheduled for 18 February 2014 Jailed Vietnamese blogger and human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan has launched a hunger strike to protest the refusal by … [Read more...]
Cambodia: Mam Sonando Released | Joint Press Release
22/03/2013
PDF version Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LWRC) are pleased to note that Mam Sonando, a Cambodian broadcaster who had been detained for exercising his right to freedom of expression, has been released. He was … [Read more...]
9 May 2013 | Robert A. Williams: Savage Anxieties: Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and the Not-So-Special Case of Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group v. Canada
02/02/2013
Savage Anxieties: Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights and the Not-So-Special Case of Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group v. Canada before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission Robert A. Williams Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of racist violence and colonial dispossession … [Read more...]
Turkey: July trial ignored fundamental guarantees of the rights of the defence | Joint press release
18/07/2012
From July 16 to 18, 2012, our organisations attended in Istanbul the opening of the trial indicting 46 lawyers, 3 of their staff members and 1 journalist. They insist that identifying a lawyer with his client amounts to an unacceptable criminalization of the lawyers' profession. Our … [Read more...]
Turkey: 18 rights and lawyers’ groups express concern to the UN as a trial against 46 lawyers under terrorism charges is due to open on July 16 | Joint press release
13/07/2012
Amsterdam-Ankara-Brussels-Geneva-Grenoble-Montpellier-Ottawa-Paris-Rennes, July 13, 2012. 18 rights and lawyers' groups express concern to the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders as a trial under … [Read more...]
PRESS RELEASE | Omar Khadr: Committee against Torture recommends transfer to Canada and redress for human rights violations
01/06/2012
Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (CMLG) For Immediate Release Friday, June 01, 2012 (pdf version) Omar Khadr: Committee against Torture recommends transfer to Canada and redress for human rights violations The Committee against Torture … [Read more...]
PRESS RELEASE | Canada must prosecute any foreign national suspected of torture
01/06/2012
Immediate Release Friday, June 01, 2012 Canada must prosecute any foreign national suspected of torture (committed anywhere and against anyone) when the suspect enters Canada even temporarily, says Committee against Torture. The Committee against Torture (“Committee”), in an advance version of … [Read more...]
