Iran: Grave risks to lawyers and prisoners of conscience amid armed conflict | Joint oral statement to the UN Human Rights Council
23/03/2026
Full pdf joint statement Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item 4: General Debate 16 March 2026 Speaker: Catherine Morris Oral Statement to the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, … [Read more...]
Iran: Reprisals Against Lawyers Amid Armed Conflict | Joint Statement
02/03/2026
Full pdf joint statement Joint Statement on Iran Ongoing Assault on Access to Independent Counsel and Reprisals Against Lawyers Amid Armed Conflict 2 March 2026 We, the undersigned organisations and members of the international legal community, raise urgent concern about the rapidly … [Read more...]
Iran: Denial of Access to Legal Representation in Iran and the Arrest of Lawyers | Joint statement
10/02/2026
Full pdf joint statement Joint Statement condemning Denial of Access to Legal Representation in Iran and the Arrest of Lawyers 10 February, 2026 We, the undersigned organisations and members of the international legal community, express our grave concern regarding the systematic denial … [Read more...]
Iran: Crackdown on human rights since the June 2025 ceasefire between Iran and Israel | Joint Statement to the Human Rights Council
23/09/2025
Full pdf joint statement | Watch on UN WebTV at 1:25:23 Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item 4: General debate Date: 23 September 2025 Speaker: Paria Saremi Oral Statement to the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), and … [Read more...]
The global problem of enforced disappearances: “Outside all protection of the law” | Written statement submitted to the UN Human Rights Council
23/01/2024
Written statement submitted by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. Peacemakers Trust, The 29 Principles, Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Colombian Caravana, Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre, NGOs without consultative status, … [Read more...]
China, Iran and Türkiye: Systematic pattern of arbitrary detention of lawyers | Joint oral statement to the UN Human Rights Council
21/06/2022
Full .pdf statement See the full debate on UN WebTV. The statement of LRWC is at 1:43:55 Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: Item 3: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Date: 20 June 2022 Speaker: Brian … [Read more...]
Iran: Systematic and widespread arbitrary detention of lawyers and other human rights defenders| Joint written statement to the UN Human Rights Council
14/06/2022
Full .pdf written statement See written statement on UN website Joint written statement submitted by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, International Bar Association, Lawyers for Lawyers, The Law Society, non-governmental organizations in special consultative status Iran: Systematic and … [Read more...]
ACTION NEWS: LRWC Newsletter Spring 2022
30/04/2022
Join or Renew | Support LRWC's work LRWC Action News Spring 2022 Edition (full .pdf) Afghanistan | Belarus | Cambodia | Canada | China | Colombia | Iran | Myanmar | Philippines | Russia | Saudi Arabia | South Sudan | Thailand | Turkey | Ukraine | United States | United Nations | International … [Read more...]
UN Human Rights Council: Judicial harassment of human rights lawyers Nasrin Sotoudeh and Amirsalar Davoudi | Joint Statement with IBAHRI
17/03/2022
See the pdf statement (joined by LRWC) See the video statement at 1:15:06. United Nations Human Rights Council - 49th Session Oral Statement by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) during the Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human … [Read more...]
UN Human Rights Council: Iran: Arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of human rights lawyers and defenders | Joint oral statement
16/03/2022
Full .pdf statement See video. LRWC statement at 01:42:14 Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: Item 3: General Debate Date: 16 March 2022 Speaker: Paria Saremi Oral Statement to the 49th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), … [Read more...]
