UPR of Turkey: Erosion of Judicial Independence and Attacks on Lawyers in Turkey
November 25, 2019
Full PDF Version Erosion of Judicial Independence and Attacks on Lawyers in Turkey is a summary of facts for circulation to states during the pre-session to the Universal Periodic Review of Turkey at the 35th session in January-February 2020. The summary was prepared by the Law Society of England … [Read more...]
Sudan: Call to End the Repression and Persecution of Lawyers | Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
September 27, 2019
Live stream video, Chapter 49, 01:45:10 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Organizations: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan Date: 25 September 2019 Speaker: Paul Scambler Oral Statement to the … [Read more...]
Yemen: Call to Ban Export of Arms to the Conflict in Yemen | Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
September 26, 2019
Live stream video, Chapter 72, 02:38:14 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Organizations: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: Item 10 General Debate Date: 26 September 2019 Speaker: Paul Scambler Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers’ … [Read more...]
Cambodia: Failure to Fulfill International Human Rights Obligations | Joint Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
September 25, 2019
Live stream video, Chapter 21, 00:57:36 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Organizations: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), and International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) Item: Item 10 – Interactive dialogue on the Report of … [Read more...]
Philippines: Stop the Attacks and Extrajudicial Killings of Lawyers | Oral Statement to the 42nd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council
September 18, 2019
Live stream video, Chapter 7, 00:11:20 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 4, General Debate Date: 17 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers for Lawyers Speaker: Catherine Morris Oral Statement to … [Read more...]
Myanmar & Bangladesh: Rights, Dignity, and Future of Genocide Survivors at Stake | Joint Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
September 17, 2019
Live stream video, Chapter 38, 01:39:49 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 4: Interactive Dialogue, Special Rapporteur on Myanmar (Oral Update) Date: 16 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers' Rights Watch … [Read more...]
South Sudan: Arbitrary Detention, Repression, and Persecution of Lawyers | Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
September 17, 2019
Live stream video, Chapter 21, 00:37:23 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan Date: 16 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers' Rights Watch … [Read more...]
Arbitrary Detention of Lawyers and Defenders in China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Cameroon | Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
September 17, 2019
Live stream video, Chapter 56, 01:29:37 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 3, General Debate Date: 13 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada Speaker: Felix Agbor Nkongho Oral … [Read more...]
Human Rights Violations in Cameroon, Philippines, China, and Saudi Arabia | Oral Statement to the 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council
September 13, 2019
Live stream video, Chapter 74, 01:59:48 Full PDF Statement Check Against Delivery Item: Item 2, General Debate on the oral update of the High Commissioner of Human Rights Date: 10 September 2019 Organization: Lawyers' Rights Watch … [Read more...]
Saudi Arabia: Summary of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention | WGAD
September 13, 2019
Full PDF Version Waleed Abu al-Khair of Saudi Arabia Summary of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Opinions on arbitrary detentions in Saudi Arabia[1] The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) in Opinions published between 2002 and 2018 identified … [Read more...]
