NEW BOOK
The Right to Counsel: A Guide to International Law Rights to Legal Assistance and Representation | LRWC publication
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Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) is pleased to announce the publication of a new international human rights law guidebook, The Right to Counsel: A Guide to International Law Rights to Legal Assistance and Representation, published in February 2021.
The latest in LRWC’s series of guidebooks on international human rights law, The Right to Counsel compiles and discusses the main international and regional treaties, instruments, and cases that set out the duties of States to respect and ensure the right to legal counsel. The book sheds light on ways to strengthen the right to counsel as part of States’ duties to ensure fundamental rights to fair and impartial justice and the rule of law.
With this publication, LRWC aims to assist readers in gaining a comprehensive understanding of the right to counsel by highlighting its importance as a right in itself and as a right to guarantee other rights. The Right to Counsel is aimed at justice system actors, government authorities, officials in international and regional organizations, civil society, and victims of human rights violations. The book is available for download free of charge in .pdf format.
The book is authored by Luiza Teixeira, a lawyer from Brazil with 13 years of experience in human rights. She has been a monitor and researcher with LRWC since 2014. Ms. Teixeira works in Brazil on promotion of the right of children and adolescents to be protected from all forms of violence.
Other LRWC guidebooks in the series include Attacking Defenders: The Criminalization of Human Rights Advocacy, published in 2020 and The Right to Dissent: International Law Obligations to Respect, Protect and Fulfill the Right to Participate in Public Affairs by Engaging In Criticism, Opposition and Dissent, published in 2017.
