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NLG IC letter to US State Department on Gaza electricity crisis
The National Lawyers Guild International Committee sent the following letter to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging action in response to the humanitarian crisis for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip created by the siege on Gaza and the ongoing electricity crisis caused by punitive actions by Israel, the Occupying Power, as well as by […]
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Video: NLG IC Press Conference against U.S. threats of war in Korean peninsula
On Wednesday, October 18, the National Lawyers Guild International Committee organized a press conference at the Solidarity Center in New York City against U.S. threats of war in the Korean peninsula, especially following President Donald Trump’s threats from the United Nations platform to “destroy” North Korea. Watch the video online: “The progressive legal community is […]
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NLG International denounces U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO
The National Lawyers Guild International Committee denounces in the strongest terms the actions of United States President Donald Trump in withdrawing from UNESCO—the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The withdrawal of the United States from UNESCO in an attempt to suppress and delegitimize global support for the protection of Palestinian culture is an […]
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18 October, NYC: Press Conference: Lawyers and activists on Trump’s dangerous, illegal threats to “destroy” North Korea
MEDIA ADVISORY For Wednesday, 10am October 18, 2017 Contact: international@nlg.org NEW YORK– In his address to the United Nations, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to “totally destroy North Korea,” violating the UN charter within its own walls and raising the specter of genocide and crimes against humanity in violation of the UN Charter (which as a ratified treaty […]
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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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Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: Cancel the debt – emergency relief now
Following years of colonialism and the intensified assault of austerity in the past several years, Puerto Rico is suffering from the destruction caused by Hurricane Maria and the massive impact of climate change. As the National Lawyers Guild International Committee, we demand the immediate cancellation of Puerto Rico’s debt. We also join the many calls […]
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IADL statement of shock and alarm on the situation of the Rohingya in Myanmar
The following statement was issued by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the global alliance of progressive lawyers of which the NLG is a member: The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) expresses its shock and alarm at the reported massacres of the Rohingya Community of Rakhine province carried out by the Army of Myanmar. […]
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Full Video: Peace Beyond the Peace Talks – Updates on the Philippine Situation with the NDFP Negotiating Panel
The National Lawyers Guild joined the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines to host a series of livestream screenings of a forum on the peace process in the Philippines with representatives of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines negotiating panel on Saturday, August 26. The livestreams took place in cities across the […]
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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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National Lawyers Guild International Statement in Support of Palestinian Professor Rabab Abdulhadi
Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi of San Francisco State University (SFSU), along with several campus administrators, is named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by the Lawfare Project on June 19, 2017. The lawsuit makes the unsubstantiated claim that the SFSU College of Ethnic Studies, created as the result of the 1968 student strike and which […]
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