LRWC reports and handbooks on international human rights topics related to protection of human rights defenders.
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...]
Mexico: Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists
30/06/2011
Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists by Cara Gibbons (LRWC Mexico monitor) and Beth Spratt, on behalf of PEN Canada and the International Human Rights Program at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, 3 June 2011. Full report. SUMMARY: Corruption Impunity … [Read more...]
Protective Measures in the African Union
23/02/2011
Protective Measures in the African Union by Chelsea Thomas … [Read more...]
British Columbia: International Obligations to Provide Legal Aid | Report
25/10/2010
Canada: International Obligations to Provide Legal Aid by Gail Davidson, Catherine Morris, Heather Neun To: BC Public Commission on Legal Aid From: Lawyers Rights Watch Canada INTRODUCTION The purpose of this submission is to lay out the basic international human rights law concerning the … [Read more...]
Attacks on Lawyers, Judges and Human Rights Defenders: The Urgent Need for Protective Measures
03/06/2010
LRWC, Lawyers for Lawyers and the International Commission of Jurists organized an event on Attacks on Lawyers, Judges and Human Rights Defenders: The Urgent Need for Protective Measures which was held on 03 June 2010 at the Palais Des Nations in Geneva. Featured speakers included Gabriela … [Read more...]
Protective Measures in the Inter-American Human Rights System
01/02/2010
Protective Measures in the Inter-American Human Rights System by Isabela Piacentini de Andrade … [Read more...]
United Kindgom: Murder of Patrick Finucane
19/02/2006
Full PDF Version PATRICK FINUCANE – THE UNITED KINGDOM: NORTHERN IRELAND On February 13th 1989, Patrick Finucane was shot dead in front of his wife and three children by 3 masked men. Patrick Finucane was a lawyer in Northern Ireland who had acted as defense counsel on many politically … [Read more...]
