Canada: Statement to the Human Rights Council on the situation of Omar Khadr in Guantánamo Bay Prison

1. This statement is a follow-up of the: September/08/2008 report by LRWC and 40 other NGOs and individuals to the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights for consideration on the Universal Periodic Review of Canada; the February/15/2010 LRWC statement to the Council; and, the … [Read more...]

Spain: Statement to the Human Rights Council: Obligation to investigate the prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón

Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) Statement to the Human Rights Council: Obligation to investigate the prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón (Garzón) for opening an investigation of 114, 266 unresolved enforced disappearances and extra-judicial executions (disappearances) by the Franco regime … [Read more...]

The situation of Omar Khadr in Guantánamo Bay Prison | Written Statement to the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

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Obligation to investigate the prosecution of Judge Baltasar Garzón | Written Statement to the 19th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

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Canada: CERD Report on Missing Women and Murdered Women in BC and Canada

Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in British Columbia and Canada. Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the occasion of its review of Canada’s 19th and 20th reports, January 2012, by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada and the B.C. CEDAW … [Read more...]

Sri Lanka Accountability: Statement to the Human Rights Council 12 September 2011

Human Rights Council: Interactive Dialogue Accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka – Recommendations of Panel of Experts. see full statement … [Read more...]

United Nations Human Rights Council: Oral statement on Enforced Disappearances

United Nations Human Rights Council: Oral statement on Enforced Disappearances, Presented at the 18th Session by LRWC … [Read more...]

Oral Statement to the UN Human Rights Council: Attacks on Journalists in Pakistan and Bangladesh

PDF: Pakistan: Attacks on Journalists in Pakistan and Banagladesh by Asian Legal Resource Centre and LRWC HRC section: Item 4: General Debate Speaker: Ms. Catherine Morris An Oral Statement to the 17th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a … [Read more...]

UN Approaches to Combating Impunity

UN Approaches to Combating Impunity by Robert Husbands … [Read more...]

Judges and the Rule of Law: the prosecution of Judge Garzón in Spain | Joint Written Statement to the 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

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