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Urgent – Act Now to Stop the Deportation of Cambodian Refugees
“We also raise our voice once more to stop the detention, criminalization and deportation of migrants and instead respect people’s right to seek safety. Further, we note that U.S. wars, interventions, sanctions and bombing are responsible for forcibly displacing people around the world from their homes. Ending these U.S. attacks on the peoples of the world is essential to achieving even the first steps toward global migrant justice.”
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International Tribunal of Conscience hearings in Mexico City, November 2-3
PLEASE JOIN US! INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL OF CONSCIENCE TO HOLD HEARINGS IN MEXICO CITY NOV. 2-3 WITHIN FRAMEWORK OF VIII WORLD SOCIAL FORUM ON MIGRATION AND THE GLOBAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS’ ALLIANCE The International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement is organizing special hearings in Mexico City Nov. 2nd and 3rd focused on serious […]
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Register online for NLG International Committee CLE 2018: Protecting Our Future – Defend Voting Rights and Mitigate Climate Change
CLE Registration: Protecting Our Future – Defend Voting Rights and Mitigate Climate Change NLG International Committee CLE 2018: Protecting Our Future – Defend Voting Rights and Mitigate Climate Change This CLE will take place on Thursday, November 1 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the NLG Law for the People Convention in Portland, Oregon […]
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NYC, June 12: “Couscous – Seeds of Dignity” Film Screening and Discussion
Tuesday, June 12 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Verso’s Brooklyn Loft 20 Jay Street, Ste 1010 Brooklyn, NY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/367103263777711/ We are delighted to invite you for a film screening and an evening discussion of Habib Ayeb’s “Couscous: Seeds of Dignity”. This award-winning documentary focuses on the political, social, economic and ecological conditions of cereal […]
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Register now: International Committee Weekend: Phoenix, AZ – February 23-25
Registration Open: The next International Committee Weekend will take place in Phoenix, AZ on February 23-25, 2018 Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ Register now! https://nlgicweekend.eventbrite.com ** Note: If you are interested in attending and participating in the retreat but are facing financial barriers to coming to Phoenix, please contact us at international@nlg.org. The IC is working to […]
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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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