China: Mass Arrest, Detention and Disappearance of Lawyers and Other Rights Advocates in China | Report
16/09/2015
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
10/08/2015
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
09/06/2015
Full PDF/Official UN Version … [Read more...]
CSO Joint Statement: Report of the 3rd Session of the Working Group on the Right to Peace, 25 May 2015
25/05/2015
Full PDF Version This joint statement request the Council: To extend the mandate of the Working Group on the Right to Peace. To invite the Working Group to renew the negotiation of the future Declaration of the United Nations on the Human Right to Peace, taking into account its essential … [Read more...]
CSO Joint Statement to the 3rd Session of the Working Group on the Right to Peace | Written Statement
20/04/2015
Full PDF Version The Spanish Society for International Human Rights, LRWC and 45 other CSOs presented a joint statement to the 3rd Session of the Working Group on the Right to Peace criticizing the second draft declaration on the right to peace for failing to incorporate the essential elements of … [Read more...]
Petition for Relief: In the matter of Waleed Abulkhair v. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
15/04/2015
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
19/03/2015
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
30/09/2014
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
29/09/2014
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
29/09/2014
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...]
