India: Release Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez | Letter
14/01/2022
Full .pdf letter (EN) On 14 January 2022, LRWC wrote a letter to authorities in India expressing serious concern about the arbitrary detention of Kashmiri human rights defender Mr. Khurram Parvez, who was arrested and imprisoned on 22 November 2021 on vague and overbroad terrorism laws that are … [Read more...]
The Day of the Endangered Lawyer, January 24, 2022: Colombia | The Advocate, January 2022
10/01/2022
First published in The Advocate, 80(1) (January 2022): 79-82. See a PDF version of the article. THE DAY OF THE ENDANGERED LAWYER, JANUARY 24, 2022: COLOMBIA By Heather Neun* and Catherine Morris† In 2021, threats to lawyers and other human rights defenders around the … [Read more...]
2021 year-end message from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada
28/12/2021
Donate to support LRWC's work Join or renew your membership for 2022 Download the message in .pdf format. During the last weeks of 2021, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada volunteers have been continuing to stand up for lawyers and human rights defenders under threat around the world. We … [Read more...]
Colombia: Ensure protection from death threats for lawyers of CCAJAR | Joint letter
22/12/2021
Full pdf letter (EN and ES) In a joint letter issued on 22 December 2021, Lawyers for Lawyers, the Colombian Caravana, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, and the Law Society of … [Read more...]
Cambodia: Halt judicial harassment of human rights defenders and dissidents | Statement
22/12/2021
Full pdf statement Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) is alarmed by Cambodia’s escalating judicial harassment of human rights defenders and government critics despite numerous recommendations from UN experts and the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). Currently, more than 130 persons are being … [Read more...]
Myanmar: Hold the Myanmar military and security forces accountable for their grave human rights violations, including violence against women | Joint letter
19/12/2021
Full pdf joint letter On 19 December 2021, Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada joined more than 600 human rights and women's rights organizations around the world that have endorsed an open letter to the UN Security Council by the Women's Peace Network, which is composed of lawyers, community leaders, and … [Read more...]
Canada: Unlawful attacks on Indigenous land rights defenders in Wet’suwet’en Territory | Letter
19/12/2021
Full .pdf letter [See errata *]. On 15 December 2021 LRWC wrote to Canadian and British Colombia authorities expressing concern about "allegations of unlawful use of force by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) against Wet’suwet’en people and their invitees during the enforcement of a court … [Read more...]
Hong Kong SAR: Lawyer Chow Hang-Tung sentenced to prison for organizing Tiananmen vigil | Update
18/12/2021
Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada deplores the conviction and prison sentence handed down to Hong Kong lawyer Chow Hang-Tung on 13 December 2021 for participating in a peaceful candlelight vigil for victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The vigil was held on 4 June 2020, the anniversary of … [Read more...]
Egypt: Global Legal Community Stands in Solidarity with Egyptian Lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer | Joint statement
17/12/2021
Full .pdf statement On 17 December, Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada joined a global coalition of 31 lawyers' organizations and 134 individual lawyers and law students in a joint statement calling for the unconditional release of Egyptian human rights lawyer, Mohamed el-Baqer, charged with … [Read more...]
Canada: Unlawful attacks on Indigenous land rights defenders in Wet’suwet’en Territory | Letter
15/12/2021
Full .pdf letter [See errata *]. On 15 December 2021 LRWC wrote to Canadian and British Columbia authorities expressing concern about "allegations of unlawful use of force by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) against Wet’suwet’en people and their invitees during the enforcement of a court … [Read more...]
