Press Releases
Spain: Joint Statement on the acquittal of Judge Garzon in Spain | Joint press release
27/02/2012
View PDF: Joint Statement on the acquittal of Judge Garzon in Spain by LRWC and other groups View PDF: Statement in Spanish. Human Rights Groups Welcome Spanish Court’s Decision to Acquit Judge Baltasar Garzón and Call on Spain to secure effectively the right to truth, justice, and reparation … [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...]
Cambodia: Revise or Abandon Draft NGO Law | Joint Press Release
22/12/2011
full statement PDF Joint Statement by Human Rights Watch, Global Witness, Freedom House, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Article 19, Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Civil Rights Defenders, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, Centre for Law and Democracy, … [Read more...]
Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group October 28, 2011 hearing at the Human Rights Commission of the OAS
28/10/2011
Press Release: Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group October 28, 2011 hearing at the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States … [Read more...]
Canada: Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group Press Release | IACHR petition
05/10/2011
IACHR: Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group Press Release by HTG … [Read more...]
Omar Khadr: LRWC Calls for Repatriation
29/10/2010
Omar Khadr: LRWC Calls for Repatriation by LRWC … [Read more...]
Bangladesh: LRWC Endorses the call for a return to the rule of law in Bangladesh
15/12/2008
.doc: Bangladesh: Call for Return to Rule of Law, 15 December 2008 Bangladesh: Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) Endorses the call for a return to the rule of law in Bangladesh December 15, 2008: LRWC joins with the jurists, lawyers and legal academics from throughout Asia who assembled in … [Read more...]
SINGAPORE: Government uses fear to stifle Freedom of Expression
18/07/2005
LRWC Press release – July 18, 2005 SINGAPORE: Government uses fear to stifle freedom of EXPRESSION Singapore police used plain clothes officers to seize a video screened at the JULY 9, 2005 launch of the latest book by opposition leader Dr. Chee Soon Juan. Dr. Chee has long been an outspoken … [Read more...]
Pronunciamiento de LRWC sobre el asesinato de la abogada Mexicana y defensora de derechos humanos Digna Ochoa
30/11/2001
COMUNICADO DE PRENSA VANCOUVER, jueves 30 de noviembre del 2001: - Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (“LRWC”) disemino el siguiente comunicado hoy: Digna Ochoa y Placido, abogada mexicana y defensora de los derechos humanos murió de balazos el día de 19 de octubre del 2001 en su despacho en la … [Read more...]
LRWC condems trial of Malaysian lawyer Karpal Singh
01/04/2001
MALAYSIA TARGETS LAWYER WHO DEFENDED ANWAR IBRAHIM For immediate release VANCOUVER, April 1st, 2001 - Not content with brow-beating its former Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, on arcane and trumped-up criminal charges, the government of Malaysia has now targeted the lawyer who defended … [Read more...]
