LRWC Burma Country Report: April 2005
30/04/2005
Copeland, Paul The political situation in Burma is worse than before, if that is possible. Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is still under house arrest. This time she has been held for 22 months, and still counting. The other senior leader of the National League for Democracy, U Tin Oo, has been … [Read more...]
Sierra Leone Law Libraries Project: Final Report, 25 April 2005
25/04/2005
Pongracic-Speier, Monique Background: Between 1991 and 2000, the West African nation of Sierra Leone suffered a bloody and destructive civil war. Horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity were inflicted upon children, women and men. Buildings in urban areas, including the capital, … [Read more...]
United Kingdom government must institute an inquiry Re: lawyer Patrick Finucane
23/02/2005
United Kingdom government must institute an inquiry under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act of 1921 ("1921 Act") into the 1989 murder in Northern Ireland of lawyer Patrick Finucane: Open letter to Prime Minister Blair and Attorney General Goldsmith Gwillim, Hugh February 23, 2005 The … [Read more...]
Defending Human Rights
17/10/2004
Defending Human Rights by Ontario Lawyers Gazette … [Read more...]
Advocating for Human Rights Defenders Around the World
18/09/2004
Houle, Elizabeth A. Law Now, Vol. 29, Issue page 27, August/September 2004. Those of us who practice law in safe environments such as Canada owe a duty to those who risk not only their freedom but also their lives in order to protect their clients' rights. --- Gail Davidson LRWC … [Read more...]
Litigating International Human Rights
14/05/2004
Matas, David (Remarks prepared for a Law Society of Zimbabwe workshop at Troutbeck in the Eastern Highlands, Zimbabwe, May 14, 2004) A. Difficulties Raising international law in court has obvious pitfalls. It is unfamiliar terrain for many judges. It is unlike domestic law. International law … [Read more...]
Rebuilding Sierra Leone’s Law Library
26/03/2004
Dlab, Dagmar Lawyers' Weekly Vol. 23 No. 44 March 26 2004, page 14. Sierra Leone’s principal law library, located at the High Court in the nation’s capital Freetown, was destroyed by fire during the country’s ten-year civil war, leaving lawyers and judges with minimal legal … [Read more...]
Remedies for Victims Abroad
27/02/2004
Remedies for Victims Abroad - Remarks to the Seminar on the International Criminal Court for Victims of Human Rights Violations in Asia February 27, 2004, Manila, Philippines Matas, David Global justice is in the air. With the advent of the International Criminal Court, the notion of universal … [Read more...]
Canadian Group Takes Up Defense of International Human Rights Advocates
19/11/2003
Houle, Elizabeth A. Law Society of Upper Canada (December 2002) The Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association Newsletter for the Defense Vol. 23 No. 6, 2003 The Criminal Trial Lawyers Association Newsletter Vol. 15 No. 2 November 2003 Guatemala, September 1990. Anthropologist Myrna Mack was … [Read more...]
Vancouver lawyer doubts ‘suicide’ of Mexican human rights lawyer
04/07/2003
Houle, Elizabeth A. THE LAWYERS WEEKLY, Vol. 23, No. 10, July 4 2003, page 16. The investigation into the shooting death of Mexican lawyer and human rights advocate Digna Ochoa took an abrupt twist when the Prosecutor began looking for indications that the death may have been suicide, not … [Read more...]
