Reports
Thailand – Human rights defender and magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk faces lèse majesté charge
15/11/2011
Re: Thailand - Human rights defender and magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk faces lèse majesté charge To: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinnawatra From: Front Line Defenders; Protection International; Clean Clothes Campaign; Asian Forum on Human Rights and Development; International Federation … [Read more...]
Intimidation and Harassment of Lawyer Thanassis Tartis and Panayote Dimitras
02/11/2011
Re: Intimidation and Harassment of Lawyer Thanassis Tartis and Panayote Dimitras for their participation in the Hellenic Coast Guard anti-racism trial To: Prime Minister George Papandreou From: Gail Davidson, Executive Director, LRWC Date: 2011-11-02 LWRC is deeply troubled and aggrieved … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: 3rd and 4th Periodic Report on the Implementation of the Convention Against Torture
31/10/2011
Executive Summary: These submissions are made by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada in aid of the Committee against Torture’s (CAT) examination of the combined 3rd and 4th Periodic Report of Sri Lanka outlining its implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading … [Read more...]
Cambodia: Human Rights Report – October 2011
28/10/2011
View PDF Cambodia: Human Rights Report - October 2011 by LRWC LRWC monitor and researcher, Catherine Morris(1), visited Cambodia during the month of October to discuss with human rights workers the priority concerns for protection of human rights defenders there. The main concerns are curbs … [Read more...]
Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (Commission) Inequality in funding lawyers for groups appearing before Commission
22/10/2011
LRWC.AG.Bond.Missing.Women.Oct.22 … [Read more...]
British Columbia: Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
22/10/2011
Full PDF Version Re: Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Inequality in funding lawyers for groups appearing before Commission To: Honourable Shirley Bond, Attorney General From: Gail Davidson, Executive Director, LRWC; Catherine Morris, BA, LLB, LLM Date: 2011-10-22 Thank you … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka Accountability: Statement to the Human Rights Council 12 September 2011
27/09/2011
Human Rights Council: Interactive Dialogue Accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka – Recommendations of Panel of Experts. see full statement … [Read more...]
Gambia: Judicial Harassment against Lawyer Moses Richards
25/09/2011
Re: Judicial Harassment against Lawyer Moses Richards To: Defence Minister, Alhaji Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh; Attorney General, Edward Tony Gomiz; Secretary of State, Ousman Sonko; Ambassador, Moses Benjamin Jallow From: Vicheka Lay, LRWC Member; Jessica Fletcher, LRWC Member Date: … [Read more...]
Re Legal Funding for groups with standing at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
19/09/2011
LRWC AG Bond Missing Women Inquiry Legal Fundng Sept 19 11 … [Read more...]
