International Committee News

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  NLG Condemns Biden Administration’s Violent Deportation of Haitian Asylum Seekers

  The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) strongly denounces the Biden Administration’s racist brutality against Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border and their mass expulsion and deportation, in violation of US law and of their internationally recognized rights to seek asylum. The NLG reiterates and supports the comprehensive statement from the Haiti Action Committee, and offers the following additional […]

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  450+ lawyers and legal organizations support Steven Donziger at his sentencing hearing

  Over 450 lawyers and legal organizations around the world submitted a letter of support to Judge Preska in the sentencing hearing for Steven Donziger on Tuesday, September 21, 2021. The letter was coordinated by the National Lawyers Guild International Committee and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. It urges Judge Preska “to sentence Mr. Donziger […]

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  Open Letter in Support of Justice and Accountability for the November 2019 Coup d’etat in  Bolivia and Crimes Committed by the De Facto Government of Jeanine Áñez

  The National Lawyers Guild International Committee and Project Blueprint launched this open letter in support of justice and accountability for the November 2019 coup d’etat in Bolivia. It has been endorsed by dozens of legal organizations, lawyers and human rights activists in the U.S. and internationally. We urge you to share this open letter with […]

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  NLG endorses Open Letter to the States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty on the Need to Impose a Comprehensive Two-Way Arms Embargo on Israel

  The NLG’s Palestine Subcommittee is, with over 100 organizations, a signatory of the below open letter to the Arms Trade Treaty states parties, urging a comprehensive two-way arms embargo on Israel, blocking either the sale of weapons to Israel or the purchase of Israeli weapons, often marketed for their success in use against Palestinian civilians. […]

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  WPLC, IADL, and NLG file joint Amicus Brief Supporting the Hawaiian Kingdom’s Complaint against the US Requesting a Declaratory Judgment and Effective End of U.S. Occupation 

  July 30, 2021 Contact: Natali Segovia, Staff Attorney, WPLC: defense@waterprotectorlegal.org NLG International Committee: international@nlg.org Download the amicus brief here. Honolulu—The Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC), alongside the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and National Lawyers Guild (NLG), filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief today in support of the Hawaiian Kingdom’s complaint […]

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  NLG condemns US continuing interference in Nicaragua and its democratic process

  The International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild, the oldest and largest human rights bar association of the United States, makes the following statement condemning US continuing interference in Nicaragua and its democratic process. The Guild notes that this conduct by the United States is in clear and direct violation of international law, including but not limited to the jus cogens rights of […]

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  UN Office of High Commissioner issues report on systemic racism in policing, calls for meaningful change

  On June 8, 2020, the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown and Philando Castile, together with more than 600 rights groups, petitioned the UN Human Rights Council to convene a special session to appoint a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the on-going crisis of police violence and systemic racism in policing resulting in […]

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  Friday, June 18: “A Global Conversation on Reparations”

  The NLG International Committee is distributing the following announcement; IC Steering Committee Member and NLG Africa Subcommittee Chair Kerry McLean will moderate the session. REGISTER: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrcOqhrz0qGtAtNsm_OHGfMh7WUsK5yCnu The Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law will host: “A Global Conversation on Reparations” Friday, June 18 at 1:30 pm Eastern time Presented in honor […]

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  NLG and TONATIERRA issue Early Warning of Crimes Against Humanity against Indigenous Peoples in Colombia

  The National Lawyers Guild Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Committee, the National Lawyers Guild International Committee,  International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement, Semilla Warunkwa – International Office, New York, ProtectTheSacredNYC, and TONATIERRA issued an urgent Early Warning on May 31, 2021, addressed to U.S. officials, members of Congress, and UN officials and Special Rapporteurs. The […]

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  Statement in Solidarity with the People of Colombia in their Historic Uprising for Peace, the Right to a Dignified Life and Against Militarism and Repression

  Read this statement below in: Spanish | Portuguese FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2021 Contact: communications@nlg.org The National Lawyers Guild stands in solidarity with the people of Colombia in their national uprising for peace, in defense of the right to a dignified life, and against militarism and repression by the U.S-backed government headed by President […]

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