Sebastian Ennis | Board of Directors
18/05/2019
Sebastian Ennis is currently transitioning to a litigation boutique in Vancouver with a focus on public law, appeals, and complex public interest cases. He previously served as a judicial law clerk at both the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He obtained his … [Read more...]
Joey Doyle | Board of Directors
18/05/2019
Joey Doyle is a Vancouver-based lawyer, practicing mainly criminal defence. He has been a member of Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada since 2016, when he worked for LRWC as a law student. In 2017, he attended the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on behalf of LRWC. Joey is interested in the application … [Read more...]
Joshua Lam | Board of Directors
18/05/2019
Joshua Lam is a lawyer and human rights advocate. He is currently legal counsel at Sage Legal, in Victoria, BC, where his practice focuses on indigenous rights, non-profit/charity law, and social justice issues. Prior to moving to Victoria, BC, he worked in Alberta, focusing on poverty law and … [Read more...]
Harini Sivalingam | Board of Directors
14/05/2019
Harini Sivalingam obtained her LL.B. at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto) and her LL.M. in International Comparative Law at McGill University (Montreal). She has worked as a lawyer in private practice in the area of immigration and refugee law, and at a community legal aid clinic providing legal … [Read more...]
Stop US threats against the International Criminal Court and its Prosecutor | Press release
16/04/2019
See full PDF press release Stop US threats against the International Criminal Court and its Prosecutor Immediate Release 16 April 2019 - Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) today denounced a new United States (US) threat against the International Criminal Court (ICC), the latest in a series of … [Read more...]
Myanmar: Oral Statement to 40th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Statement of Rohingya peace advocate, Hamida Khatun | Joint Statement of LRWC and ISHR
12/03/2019
Full .pdf file Video Stream Available (Chapter 20, 00:39:00) Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Date: 11 March 2019 Speaker: Ms. Salma El Hosseiny (ISHR) Oral Statement to the 40th Session of the UN Human Rights … [Read more...]
Canada: Release and Repatriation of Omar Khadr | Letter
05/10/2018
Full PDF Version Wednesday, July 30, 2008 The Right Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper The Honourable Attorney General Robert Nicholson, The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs David Emerson, The Honourable Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay Dear Honourable … [Read more...]
Saudi Arabia: Persistent gross, widespread and systematic violations of human rights while a member of the UN Human Rights Council | Joint Written Statement to the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
22/08/2018
See full pdf report as filed with the UN Human Rights Council without footnotes (due to length restrictions) See the fully footnoted report (pdf) This written statement by LRWC is endorsed by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR). Item 4 – Human rights situations that require Council’s … [Read more...]
Pearl Eliadis | Honorary Board of Directors
15/08/2017
Pearl Eliadis | Honorary Board of Directors Pearl Eliadis (BCL, LLB (McGill), BCL Oxon.) is a lawyer, author and lecturer. Her law practice focuses on human rights, national institutions and democratic governance, working mainly with international and multilateral institutions and civil society … [Read more...]
Claire L’Heureux-Dubé | Honorary Director
28/07/2017
The Honourable Claire L'Heureux-Dubé is an eminently distinguished Canadian jurist who was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1987 after having served for 14 years as a judge in the Québec superior and Appeal courts. Mme L’Heureux-Dubé’s extraordinary contribution to Canadian … [Read more...]
