Publications
Afghanistan: Joint statement seeks fact finding mechanism | Joint Statement to the UN Human Rights Council 31st Special Session
24/08/2021
Full PDF statement (EN) Special Session video: 1st meeting; 2nd meeting (LRWC statement at 09:46); Statements regarding action on the resolution. Full text of statements of all speakers from UN Experts, States and NGOs Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: 31st Special … [Read more...]
Burundi: The Human Rights Council should continue its scrutiny | Joint letter
19/08/2021
Full pdf letter (EN) | Full pdf letter (FR) LRWC is among 43 NGOs signing a letter to member and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council seeking renewal of the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi for a further year. See the full letter and signatories below. See the pdf versions … [Read more...]
Afghanistan: Statement of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada: Uphold the rule of law in Afghanistan | Press release
17/08/2021
Full pdf press release (EN) UPDATE: See LRWC's oral statement to the UN Human Rights Council, 24 August 2021. Statement of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada: Uphold the rule of law in Afghanistan Immediate release August 17, 2021 - Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) deplores the Taliban’s … [Read more...]
China: UN Universal Periodic Review mid-term report | Joint report
12/08/2021
Full UPR mid-term .pdf report (EN) In preparation for the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China in 2024, Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada joined Lawyers for Lawyers in submitting a mid-term report. The report sets out the extent to which China has implemented the … [Read more...]
Pakistan: Duty to protect lawyer Saif Ul Malook | Letter
10/08/2021
Full .PDF letter (EN) Mr. Arif Alvi President of Pakistan President’s Secretariat Islamic Republic of Pakistan President's Secretariat, Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad, Pakistan Email: dg_coord2@president.gov.pk, dir_coord4@president.gov.pk Barrister Dr. Muhammad Farogh Naseem Minister … [Read more...]
Thailand: Immediately repeal emergency regulation that threatens online freedoms | Joint statement
03/08/2021
Full .PDF statement (EN) ประเทศไทย: ยกเลิกข้อกําหนดในสถานการณ์ฉุกเฉินที่คุกคามเสรีภาพออนไลน์โดยทันท (.PDF Thai translation) 17 international human rights organizations today denounced the Thai government’s newly announced Regulation No. 29, which empowers the authorities to censor … [Read more...]
China: How the ‘trials’ of two Canadians detained in China show the importance of the rule of law | Op-ed, Hong Kong Free Press
03/08/2021
Op-Ed published by Hong Hong Free Press on 27 March 2021 and the Taipei Times on 29 March 2021. Clive Ansley is a director of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada. By Clive Ansley, David Kilgour, Peter Lamont “Chinese judges are classified as civil servants in China’s Civil … [Read more...]
2020–21: A pandemic of rights violations has met with dramatic civil resistance to injustice | Article in The Advocate July 2021
23/07/2021
Full .pdf article NEWS FROM LAWYERS’ RIGHTS WATCH CANADA Originally published in The Advocate 79(4)(July 2021): 535-38. By Catherine Morris[*] The 2020 annual report of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (“LRWC”)[1] was released in April 2021 and reported on LRWC volunteers’ … [Read more...]
Hong Kong: Prosecution of Tiananmen Vigil Organizer Chow Hang-tung | Joint Open Letter
21/07/2021
Full PDF letter (EN) 21 July 2021 Ms. Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah Secretary for Justice Department of Justice Central, Hong Kong Re: Prosecution of Tiananmen Vigil Organizer Chow Hang-tung Dear Secretary Cheng, We, a group of 72 international non-governmental organizations and … [Read more...]
Turkey: Concerns about access to the legal profession and disbarments | Joint Statement
21/07/2021
Full pdf statement (EN) Concerns about access to the legal profession and increasing disbarments of lawyers in Turkey 19 July 2021 We, the undersigned organizations, have long been deeply concerned about the increasingly challenging and hostile environment in which lawyers in Turkey … [Read more...]
