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The Philippines Subcommittee is organizing a delegation of election observers in coordination with the People's International Observers Mission 2010 (PIOM)....

Report from The Honduran Presidential Elections

By Tanya Brannan

January 26, 2010

I am an NLG-affiliated lawyer from Santa Rosa, California. I was part of a small delegation to Honduras over the week of Thanksgiving, 2009. The delegation was organized by Rights Action who expressly stated we were not to be election observers, because the elections were illegal and should not have happened. Instead, our job was to investigate and document human rights abuses in the days leading up to and immediately following the elections of November 29th....

Two Important Resources on Gaza

Links to IADL White Paper & NLG Gaza Delegation Report

January 14, 2010

A White Paper by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers explains the reasoning and legal bases underlying IADL's condemnation of the Israeli bombardment and invasion of Gaza.
And a Final Report by the NLG's Delegation to Gaza states the evidence establishing the case that the Israeli military committed significant violations of international law....

Help the Guild Defend Imprisoned Palestinian Human Rights Defenders

December 31, 2009

Defend Human Rights Defenders in Palestine: Read & download the Flyer on the Anti-Wall Prisoners and Imprisoned Human Rights Defenders...

NLG Delgation to Gaza: Report to NLG Convention

Video of presentations by Radhika Sainath, Reem Salahi, Tom Nelson, and James Leas

December 23, 2009

youtube video report of NLG Delegation to Gaza with introduction by Marjorie Cohn...

IADL Warns Against "Electoral Charade" in Haiti

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberte

December 17, 2009

This past week saw outcry from legal professionals around the globe against the election fiasco unfolding in Haiti after the Provisional Electoral Council's exclusion of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Family party (FL) and 13 others from parliamentary elections set for Feb. 28 and Mar. 3, 2010....

2009 Report on the Human Rights Situtation in the Philippines by Karapatan

By Vanessa Lucas

December 15, 2009

Karapatan, an alliance of individuals, groups and organizations working for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines, has released its 2009 year end report on the Human Rights Situation in the Philippines. The Report is entitled Oplan Bantay Laya: Blueprint for Terror and Impunity....

Haiti: Don't Honor Tainted Election

By Brian Concannon and Ira Kurzban, Miami Herald

December 11, 2009

Late last month, Haiti's government took the undemocratic and dangerous step of excluding 15 political parties, including Haiti's most popular party, Fanmi Lavalas, from parliamentary elections scheduled for February and March 2010. The decision threatens not only Haiti's democracy and stability, but billions in foreign investments financed by taxpayers in the United States and elsewhere....

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