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  • 270 Deaths Foretold: Report highlights corporate responsibility for Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil

    Posted on February 18, 2020

    “The Collapse was predictable. It was not an act of God or Nature. That this was predictable heightens our pain. The event is not in the past, it is in the present, [while it also] lives in people’s memories and in their pain. We live with that collapsed dam in people’s hearts.” – Auxiliary Bishop […]

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  • Cancelled due to COVID-19: CSW 2020: Two NLG-supported panels on maternal mortality and reproductive justice

    Posted on February 18, 2020

    THESE HAVE BEEN CANCELLED, ALONG WITH ALL 550 NGO PARALLEL EVENTS DURING CSW 2020, DUE TO COVID-19.  As part of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women CSW64/Beijing+25, taking place in March 2020 in New York City, the National Lawyers Guild is supporting two important side events. On Monday, March 9 at 10:30 […]

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  • March 21-22, NYC: International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations

    Posted on February 9, 2020

    The National Lawyers Guild and its Cuba Subcommittee are endorsers and co-sponsors of the following conference, to take place at Fordham Law School in New York City on March 21-22, 2020: Fordham School of Law 150 W 62nd St New York City Registration and full details here: http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/ In 2019 the Trump White House and […]

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  • NLG International stands in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people defending their land from pipelines

    Posted on February 8, 2020

      The International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the oldest and largest human rights bar in the United States, its Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Committee, and its Environmental Human Rights Committee, stand in solidarity with the sovereign Wet’suwet’en nation and its people, including the traditional Unist’ot’en (C’ihlts’ehkhyu), in their just opposition to the construction […]

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  • Help Send the NLG to the US’ Universal Periodic Review in Geneva

    Posted on February 7, 2020

    The United Nations will review the U.S.’ human rights record at the Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in May 2020. The UPR takes place for each country only every four years, so this marks a unique and important opportunity for the National Lawyers Guild to raise its voice at an […]

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  • NLG IC statement regarding the human rights situation at the Universidad del Atlantico in Barranquilla, Colombia

    Posted on January 23, 2020

    The following statement and letter were sent to the Rector of the Universidad del Atlantico in Barranquilla, Colombia, Jorge Luis Restrepo Pimienta, and the Governor of the region, Elsa Noguera, by the Colombia Subcommittee of the National Lawyers Guild International Committee. The statement provides detailed support for the demands of student protesters at the University […]

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  • NLG joins legal organizations to support judicial independence in Colombia

    Posted on January 22, 2020

    The National Lawyers Guild signed on to the following letter of international legal organizations and bodies promoting human rights in the Americas regarding the criminal case currently pending in Colombia against former Colombian President and current Senator, Álvaro Uribe Velez, and Representative Álvaro Hernán Prada. Both are accused of fraud and bribery related to witness […]

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  • NLG International congratulates CHD (Turkey) on refounding, general assembly

    Posted on January 18, 2020

    The National Lawyers Guild International Committee sent the following message to the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (CHD) of Turkey on the occasion of its refounding and general assembly on January 18-19, 2020. Both the NLG and CHD are members of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), and CHD members have been facing severe persecution in […]

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  • NLG Calls Upon US to Immediately Comply with International Humanitarian Law in its Illegal Occupation of the Hawaiian Islands

    Posted on January 13, 2020

    The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the oldest and largest progressive bar association in the United States, calls upon the United States to immediately begin to comply with international humanitarian law in its prolonged and illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom since 1893. As the longest running belligerent occupation of a foreign country in the history of international […]

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  • NLG CONDEMNS ILLEGAL TARGETED ASSASSINATIONS BY THE UNITED STATES & THE INCREASED REPRESSION OF IRANIAN NATIONALS AT U.S. BORDER

    Posted on January 5, 2020

    January 6, 2019 THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE ILLEGAL TARGETED ASSASSINATIONS BY THE UNITED STATES & THE INCREASED REPRESSION OF IRANIAN NATIONALS AT U.S. BORDERS  The National Lawyers Guild, the oldest and largest progressive bar association in the United States, strongly condemns recent illegal U.S. actions in Iraq, including the killing of Iranian […]

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