Gavin Magrath – Statement to UNHRC on Cambodia
On behalf of Lawyer's Rights Watch Canada, Gavin Magrath presented [...]
Government of Canada Drops Khadr Bail Appeal
The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency [...]
Gavin Magrath leads LRWC Intervention in Trinity Western University v LSUC
The Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision today on [...]
LRWC Letter re: China – Coordinated Harassment, Incommunicado Detention and Disappearances of Lawyers and Other Human Rights Defenders
Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a committee of Canadian lawyers [...]
LRWC Letter to Argentina Re: Death of Alberto Nisman
LRWC is gravely concerned with the actions of the Government of Argentina leading up to and following the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman on Sunday, 18 January 2015. Alberto Nisman died of a single gunshot wound to the head the day before he was scheduled to give evidence to the Argentinean Congress about a federal government cover-up.
LRWC Letter Re: Arrest of Eric Paulsen, Repeal of the Sedition Act, and End to Arbitrary Detention
19 January 2015 Dear Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, [...]
LRWC Oral Statement to the 27th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Human Rights Defenders subjected to arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance
[The following text was prepared by Gavin Magrath for oral [...]
PEN Canada hit with CRA Audit
PEN Canada, a Toronto-based charity that advocates for free expression [...]
UN Human Rights Commission Releases Concluding Report on USA
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human [...]
Omar Khadr: Canada in Breach of multiple International Human Rights obligations, including Convention against Torture and Convention on the Rights of the Child
For Immediate Release – Tuesday, May 15, 2012 On May [...]