Jane Henderson | Board of Directors
17/07/2012
Jane Henderson, Q.C., was born and raised in Vancouver, moving to Victoria in 1975 to attend the University of Victoria Law School. Her law practice has been primarily in the area of Family Law and is now restricted to Mediation, Arbitration, and Parent Coordination. Throughout her career, Jane … [Read more...]
Russia: Professional and Personal Threat against Lawyer Rustam Matsev
26/06/2012
Mr. Vladimir Putin President of the Russian Federation, Llinka Str. 23, Moscow 103132, Moscow, Russian Federation Fax: + 7 495 606 5173/630 2408 Mr. Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of the Interior, Ulitsa Zhitnaya 16 117049, Moscow, Russian Federation Telegram: Rossiia, 117049, … [Read more...]
LRWC Newsletter May 2012
04/06/2012
NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations www.lrwc.org – lrwc@portal.ca – Tel: +1 604 738 0338 – Fax: +1 604 736 1175 LRWC Newsletter May 2012 Edition pdf version LRWC ACTION NEWS Bahrain – Al Khawaja stops hunger strike, … [Read more...]
The Right to Know Our Rights: International law obligations to ensure international human rights education and training
17/05/2012
Order your hard copies ($20 each) by emailing info@lrwc.org. The Right to Know Our Rights outlines the international law obligations on States to ensure that everyone has access to education and training about their international human rights so that they develop sufficient facility to use … [Read more...]
Event: Cooperation or Conquest | 17 May 2012
02/05/2012
Prior to contact with Europeans, the diverse practices of Indigenous peoples on British Columbia's west coast evolved into highly developed legal traditions regarding governance, the environment and relationships between people. Sarah Morales will explain Coast Salish legal traditions —snuw’uyulh— … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka: PAIKIASOTHY SARAVANAMUTTU – Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives
26/03/2012
On 20 August 2009, Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu received an anonymous death threat. It had been typed in English and posted to his residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka. According to its contents, Saravanamuttu was being targeted because of information he purportedly supplied to the European Union with … [Read more...]
DUNN BOSANGS – Political Activist
26/03/2012
Dunn Bosangs is a political activist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo currently living as a refugee in South Africa. While attending a conference in South Africa in 2002, Mr. Bosangs learned that a warrant had been issued for his arrest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and remained … [Read more...]
Chee Soon Juan – human rights defender
26/03/2012
On February 7, 2006 in Singapore well-known political opposition leader Dr. Chee Soon Juan is appealing a summary judgment which highlights many issues of concern to Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and the US based Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR). Vancouver lawyer Howard Rubin … [Read more...]
