Canada Campaigns
Event | Robert Morales: Seeking Justice Elsewhere, February 23 | Video
24/02/2012
First Nations' Rights: The Gap Between Law and Practice: A Series of Five Talks The 2011-2012 series was sponsored by Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group (HTG), Amnesty International and the Vancouver Public Library: ALL TALKS IN THE SERIES: 1. Grace Woo: Ghost Dancing … [Read more...]
PRESS RELEASE: Canada Won’t Deal With Women’s Human Rights Crisis At Home
22/02/2012
Press Release: UN Committee to End Racial Discrimination Report from LRWC and BC CEDAW Group For immediate release February 22, 2012 Failure to address cases of missing and murdered Aboriginal women an international shame, say leading human rights groups (Vancouver) Canada and British … [Read more...]
Canada: Statement to the Human Rights Council on the situation of Omar Khadr in Guantánamo Bay Prison
13/02/2012
1. This statement is a follow-up of the: September/08/2008 report by LRWC and 40 other NGOs and individuals to the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights for consideration on the Universal Periodic Review of Canada; the February/15/2010 LRWC statement to the Council; and, the … [Read more...]
Canada: CERD Report on Missing Women and Murdered Women in BC and Canada
19/01/2012
Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in British Columbia and Canada. Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the occasion of its review of Canada’s 19th and 20th reports, January 2012, by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and the B.C. CEDAW … [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...]
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...]
Legal Funding for groups with standing at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
19/09/2011
Full PDF Version Re: Legal Funding for groups with standing at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry To: Honourable Shirley Bond, Attorney General From: Gail Davidson, Executive Director, LRWC; Catherine Morris, BA, LLB, LLM Date: 2011-09-19 Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) … [Read more...]
Denial of justice at the Missing Women Commission more than a shame to the country
14/09/2011
by Catherine Morris and Gail Davidson 14 September 2011 Opinion published in the Vancouver Sun, and the Victoria Times Colonist The B.C. government's refusal to provide legal representation to groups granted standing at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry is more than a national shame. It's … [Read more...]
Recent public statements against Amnesty International Canada
21/08/2011
Re: Recent public statements against Amnesty International Canada To: The Honourable Jason Kenney, P.C., M.P. From: Catherine Morris, B.A., L.L.B., L.L.M.; Gail Davidson, Executive Director, LRWC Date: 2011-08-21 Dear Minister, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) is a committee of … [Read more...]
