Reports

Mexico: Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists

Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists by Cara Gibbons (LRWC Mexico monitor) and Beth Spratt, on behalf of PEN Canada and the International Human Rights Program at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, 3 June 2011. Full report. SUMMARY: Corruption Impunity … [Read more...]

UN Approaches to Combating Impunity

UN Approaches to Combating Impunity by Robert Husbands … [Read more...]

Canada: Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group (on the merits) | Petition

IACHR:  LRWC on the Merits of the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group Case No. 12.734 by Heather Neun, Grace Woo, Gail Davidson         LRWC amicus brief to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in the Hul'qumi'num case … [Read more...]

Protective Measures in the African Union

Protective Measures in the African Union by Chelsea Thomas … [Read more...]

British Columbia: International Obligations to Provide Legal Aid | Report

Canada: International Obligations to Provide Legal Aid by Gail Davidson, Catherine Morris, Heather Neun To: BC Public Commission on Legal Aid From: Lawyers Rights Watch Canada INTRODUCTION The purpose of this submission is to lay out the basic international human rights law concerning the … [Read more...]

Outlawing Judicial Independence: The Prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón in Spain | Report

Outlawing Judicial Independence: The Prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón in Spain by Gail Davidson … [Read more...]

Omar Khadr Case: How the Supreme Court of Canada Undermined the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Omar Khadr Case: How the Supreme Court of Canada Undermined the Convention on the Rights of the Child by Grace Li Xiu Woo … [Read more...]

Mexico: Recalling the Rule of Law: Report of the Lawyers’ Delegation to Mexico

Mexico: Recalling the Rule of Law. Report of the Lawyers’ Delegation to Mexico by Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales and others … [Read more...]

Mexico: In the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Case No. 12.579 Valentina Rosendo Cantú et. al. v. The United States of Mexico

Full PDF: Mexico: In the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Case No. 12.579 Valentina Rosendo Cantú et. al. v. The United States of Mexico … [Read more...]

Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Rosendo v. Mexico

Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Rosendo et al v. Mexico, LRWC amicus curiae brief by Cara Gibbons and Alyssa Brierley … [Read more...]