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Labor and Employment Committee Cuba Delegation: Bilateral research and international conference on labor rights
The National Lawyers Guild Labor & Employment Committee serves as program consultant to Marazul Charters, a licensed travel service provider, on an annual research program in Cuba. The program consists of an international conference and a professional research program. Labor lawyers, trade unionists and neutrals have been a part of these delegations since 2000. In the winter of […]
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October 23, NYC: STOP THE KILLINGS: Duterte’s War on Drugs Through the Lens of Raffy Lerma
Duterte’s War on Drugs Through the Lens of Raffy Lerma Join the NY Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP) for a special event highlighting photojournalist Raffy Lerma’s work that has captured harrowing scenes of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s War on Drugs. Lerma’s photos, featured by the NY Times and other mainstream media outlets, […]
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October 21, Minneapolis – Parallel Liberation Struggles: Lessons in Resistance
Saturday, Oct. 21 10:00 am – 5:00 pm University of Minnesota, Keller Hall Room 3-201 200 Union Street SE Minneapolis, MN Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1630066917014887/ Registration: 9:30 am, Lunch provided People under oppression suffer from three types of violence (Johan Galtung): Structural violence, direct violence, cultural violence, as in Genocide, Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing (Raphael Lemkin) Join […]
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26 August: Peace Beyond the Peace Talks – Livestream Updates on the Philippine Situation
The National Lawyers Guild is a co-convenor of these forums across the United States along with the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP-USA and ICHRP-Netherlands) Join us for a special livestream forum on the stalled peace process in the Philippines with the Peace Process Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front-Philippines based […]
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September 2017: International Tribunal of Conscience in Mexico – Support and Learn More
The National Lawyers Guild and its upcoming delegation to Mexico will be participating in the International Tribunal of Conscience which will take place in Mexico from September 23-30, 2017. This Tribunal will take place at the site of the Ayotzinapa school were 43 students were disappeared in September 2014 while on their way to a […]
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REGISTER for Webinar, August 21: Looming War in Korea – What keeps peace so elusive and what can be done?
Eric Sirotkin of the Lawyers for Disarmament and Peace in Korea (www.ldpk.org), the Ubuntuworks Education Project and the National Lawyers Guild invites you to a scheduled Zoom webinar. Mr. Sirotkin, a long time human rights attorney and author will present based upon his many trips to both North and South Korea as well as work […]
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CLE Registration: ” The Use of International Law to Confront the Trump Agenda” – join us August 3!
International Committee CLE: The Use of International Law to Confront the Trump Agenda Online Registration This CLE will take place on Thursday, August 3 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law:4340 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008. (Map). NLG Convention participants, non-participants and all interested lawyers, legal workers and law […]
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5 things you can do RIGHT NOW to support Palestinian hunger strikers!
National Lawyers Guild, International joins USPCN Call for a Week of Action in support of 1500 Palestinian political prisoners entering their 37th day on hunger strike! As the over 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners enter their 37th day on hunger strike, the risks to their health are increasingly grave, so urgent actions in solidarity are of critical importance. […]
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20 – 21 April 2017 Lomé, Togo: International Conference on Human Rights
International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and Nouvelles Alternatives pour le Développement Durable en Afrique (NADDAF), affiliated to IADL Organise INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Co-organised by Collectif des Associations Contre l’Impunité au Togo (CACIT), WANEP Togo la Concertation Nationale de la Société Civile et l’Association Internationale des Etudiants Juristes (AIEJ Togo Chapter) “Human Rights in the context of […]
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February 23-26: NLG International Weekend in Puerto Rico – Register Online
National Lawyers Guild International Weekend in Puerto Rico February 23-26, 2017 San Juan, Puerto Rico Exact Event Locations TBA! REGISTER ONLINE (Free): https://nlginternationalpuertorico.eventbrite.com **A side trip is being coordinated after the Retreat to travel to Cuba and to connect with a portion of the Labor and Employment Committee delegation in Havana. If you are interested in joining […]
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