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Tax Collected on Legal Services and Legal Aid Funding in BC
15/10/2018
Full PDF Version Photo Credit: Mulligan Tam Pearson Legal aid is an essential to any legal system that purports to ensure equality before the law and the equal protection of the law. BC’s legal aid system is not providing the minimum legal aid required by international law to ensure these … [Read more...]
Cameroon: Crisis in Cameroon Event | News
05/10/2018
Event Agenda / Felix Agbor Nkongho Full Bio / Briefing Note CRISIS IN CAMEROON Join the Law Society of Ontario and Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada on October 25th for a discussion with Barrister Felix Nikongho about the humanitarian crisis resulting from the persecution of the Anglophone … [Read more...]
Canada: Indigenous Rights and Rights of Foreign Victims | Oral Statement on UPR Outome to 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
26/09/2018
Full PDF Version Video Stream Available (Chapter 21, at 00:45:47) Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: Item 6: Universal Periodic Review Outcomes - Canada Date: 20 September 2018 Speaker: Paul Scambler Oral Statement to the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from … [Read more...]
Canada: TWU Removes Community Covenant | News
15/08/2018
Supreme Court of Canada Photo Credit: Adrian Lee August 2018 The Trinity Western University (TWU) Board of Governors voted to remove the mandatory requirement that students sign the Community Covenant as a condition of attendance. The Covenant, which bars sexual intimacy other than between a … [Read more...]
Canada: Systematic US Violation of International Human Rights of Refugee Children and Families | Letter
27/06/2018
Full PDF Version Ursula Detention Center Photo Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection LRWC is calling on the Government of Canada to revoke the “Safe Third Country” agreement with the United States, which allows Canada to reject asylum seekers entering from the States on the grounds that … [Read more...]
In Memoriam of Carolyn McCool | News
26/06/2018
Carolyn McCool, lawyer and human rights advocate Photo Credit: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Carolyn McCool, lawyer and human rights advocate passed away on 29 May 2018. Carolyn will be sadly missed by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and many other organizations and … [Read more...]
Canada: A Big Win for Equality and Non-discrimination (& LRWC) at the Supreme Court of Canada | News
22/06/2018
Supreme Court of Canada Photo Credit: Adrian Lee The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the appeal in Trinity Western University v Law Society of Upper Canada and allowed the appeal in Law Society of BC v Trinity Western University The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on 15 June 2018 that the … [Read more...]
Canada: Human Rights Records Reviewed at the United Nations Universal Periodic Review | Press Release
12/05/2018
Full PDF Version Photo Credit: United Nations To comply with international human rights law, Canada must: Ensure access in Canada, to remedies for victims of rights violations committed outside Canada by Canadian corporations; Increase its participation in and support for the … [Read more...]
Canada: Civil Society Statement Regarding Bill C-59, An Act Respecting National Security Matters | Joint Letter
27/03/2018
Full PDF Version Version Complète en PDF La version française suit l'anglais Civil Society Statement Regarding Bill C-59, An Act Respecting National Security Matters Bill C-59 was explicitly introduced with the claim that it fixes “the problematic aspects” of its predecessor, Bill … [Read more...]
Canada: Ensure Independent and International Law-Compliant Investigation into RCMP Response to and Investigation of Extra-Judicial Killing of Colten Boushie | Letter
21/03/2018
Full PDF Version The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP will conduce a Complaint and Public Interest Investigation of the RCMP response to and investigation of the extra-judicial killing of Colten Boushie on 9 August 2016 in Saskatchewan. LRWC has written to the CRCC setting … [Read more...]
