Canada: Canada’s failure to Fully Comply with the 2012 Recommendations of the Committee Against Torture | Report
17/10/2018
Full PDF Version / Full Word Version Joint Briefing to the Committee against Torture on CANADA 65th Session, 12 November – 07 December 2018 Re: the Omar Khadr case from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada & The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group Re: Canada’s failure to fully … [Read more...]
Canada: Canada Continues to Ignore Obligation to Investigate Omar Khadr Torture, and to Act to Prevent Future Abuses | Press Release
17/10/2018
Full PDF Version / Full Word Version Canada Continues to Ignore Obligation to Investigate Omar Khadr Torture, and to Act to Prevent Future Abuses OTTAWA, October 15, 2018 – The Canadian government continues to neglect its obligations to investigate and bring to justice those complicit in … [Read more...]
Tax Collected on Legal Services and Legal Aid Funding in BC
15/10/2018
Full PDF Version Photo Credit: Mulligan Tam Pearson Legal aid is an essential to any legal system that purports to ensure equality before the law and the equal protection of the law. BC’s legal aid system is not providing the minimum legal aid required by international law to ensure these … [Read more...]
UPR of China: Information Handout for the UPR Pre-session
12/10/2018
Full PDF Version / Full Word Version Photo Credit: South China Morning Post Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L) are attending to China/UPR pre-session to ask state representatives to pose questions and make recommendations about the critical issues raised in the Joint UPR/China report submitted by L4L … [Read more...]
Cameroon: Crisis in Cameroon Event | News
05/10/2018
Event Agenda / Felix Agbor Nkongho Full Bio / Briefing Note CRISIS IN CAMEROON Join the Law Society of Ontario and Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada on October 25th for a discussion with Barrister Felix Nikongho about the humanitarian crisis resulting from the persecution of the Anglophone … [Read more...]
Egypt: Executions of 75 Defendants in Egypt | Letter
02/10/2018
Full PDF Version / Full Word Version Photo Credit: International Commission of Jurists 2 October 2018 President of the Arab Republic of Egypt H.E. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Office of the President Al Ittihadia Palace, Cairo, Egypt Mohamed Hossam Abdel-Rahim Minister of … [Read more...]
Saudi Arabia: Three Saudi Arabian Human Rights Advocates Awarded the 2018 Right Livelihood Award | News
02/10/2018
Mohammad al-Qahtani (left), Waleed Abu al-Khair, and Abdullah al-Hamid (right) September 2018 On September 24 2018 Waleed Abu al-Khair, Mohammad al-Qahtani, and Abdullah al-Hamid, three internationally respected human rights advocates arbitrarily imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, were awarded the … [Read more...]
Canada: Indigenous Rights and Rights of Foreign Victims | Oral Statement on UPR Outome to 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
26/09/2018
Full PDF Version Video Stream Available (Chapter 21, at 00:45:47) Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: Item 6: Universal Periodic Review Outcomes - Canada Date: 20 September 2018 Speaker: Paul Scambler Oral Statement to the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from … [Read more...]
Cambodia: Marked Regression of Civil and Political Rights in Cambodia | Oral Statement to the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
26/09/2018
Full PDF Version Video Stream Available (Chapter 27, at 01:04:20) Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: Item 10 – Interactive dialogue on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia Date: 26 September 2018 Speaker: Catherine … [Read more...]
Yemen: Investigate Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Yemen | Oral Statement to the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
26/09/2018
Full PDF Version Video Stream Available (Chapter 43, at 01:42:56) Organization: Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada Item: Item 10: Interactive dialogue on the situation in Yemen Date: 25-26 September 2018 Speaker: Catherine Morris Oral Statement to the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights … [Read more...]
