China: Mass Arrest, Detention and Disappearance of Lawyers and Other Rights Advocates in China | Report

Full PDF Version LRWC calls on UN Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups to come to the aid of lawyers and their associates under seige by state authorities in China. Since the beginning of July 2015 over 284 human rights lawyers have been wrongfully arrested in a country-wide campaign to close … [Read more...]

Saudi Arabia: WGAD Petition for Relief – Waleed Abulkhair | Petition

Full PDF Version Human Rights Watch and the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA - International Association of Lawyers) have joined this Petition for Relief filed 14 April 2015 by Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, Lawyers for Lawyers (the Netherlands), the Law Society of England and Wales (U.K.), the … [Read more...]

Civil Society Views on the Third Session of the Working Group on the Right to Peace | Joint Written Statement to the 29th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

Full PDF/Official UN Version     … [Read more...]

Petition for Relief: In the matter of Waleed Abulkhair v. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Petition for Relief | Appendix Petition for Relief: In the matter of Waleed Abulkhair v. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. On the first anniversary of the detention of human rights lawyer Waleed Abu Al-Khair,  organizations  filed a Petition for Relief asking the UN Working Group on Arbitrary … [Read more...]

Iran: Oral Statement to the 28th Session of the UN Human Rights Council | Oral Statement

Full PDF Version 19 March 2015 Human Rights Council Section: 28th Session, Agenda Item 6 Speaker: Phon van den Biesen, President Lawyers for Lawyers Oral Statement to the 28th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L) and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), … [Read more...]

Le Quoc Quan UNWGAD Petition

Le Quoc Quan UNWGAD Petition - Full PDF Version | Annex 1 | Annex 2 … [Read more...]

Oral Statement to the 27th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, 10 September 2014, Human Rights Defenders Subjected to Arbitrary Detention and Enforced Disappearance

Full PDF Version Date: 10 September 2014 Not Delivered HRC section: Agenda Item 3 Speaker: Gavin Magath (intended) Oral Statement to the 27th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) Human Rights Defenders subjected to arbitrary detention and … [Read more...]

Oral Statement regarding Report of the Special Rapporteur on Cambodia, 27th Session of the UN HRC, 24 September 2014 | Oral Statement

Full PDF Version (not delivered) Date: 24 September 2014 Not Delivered HRC section: Agenda Item 10 Speaker: Gary Anandasangaree (intended) Oral Statement to the 27th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a non-governmental organization in … [Read more...]

Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Access to Justice and Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Oral Intervention by LRWC to the UN Human Rights Council

Full PDF Version Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Access to Justice and Protection of Human Rights Defenders, oral intervention by LRWC to the UN Human Rights Council on 17 September  2014, presented by Catherine Morris. The video of Catherine Morris presenting this statement during the Panel … [Read more...]

Oral Intervention by the Indigenous World Association and LRWC to the UN Human Rights Council on 17 September 2014, Presented by Kenneth Deer | Oral Intervention

Full PDF Version Reports of the Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples and Reports of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, oral intervention by the Indigenous World Association and LRWC to the UN Human Rights Council on 17 September 2014, presented by Kenneth Deer. The … [Read more...]