• Responses to the U.S. Report to the UN Human Rights Committee

    Posted on April 21, 2006

    Ann Schneider, National Lawyers Guild-New York City Chapter The new UN subcommittee of the NLG International Committee initiated a diverse panel discussion at the United Nations Church Center in New York City on March 23rd. The event was organized from Maryland by Curtis Cooper with the assistance of John Kim, Olivia Kraus, Shashi Kara, Renate […]

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  • Legal Delegation Visits Haiti

    Posted on April 21, 2006

    Ravi Reddy On March 6th, four law students from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law traveled to Haiti on behalf of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and the Pittsburgh National Lawyer’s Guild Chapter to conduct research on the independence of the judiciary in Haiti. They published a report, The Independence of […]

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  • Palestinian Prisoners and International Law

    Posted on April 21, 2006

    Audrey Bomse* INTRODUCTION: Since 1967, well over 650,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza have been detained by Israel for resisting the Occupation. This constitutes approximately 20% of the total Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories and 40% of the total male population.[1] Approximately half a million Palestinians have been prosecuted in Israeli courts. […]

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  • New Trade Union Initiative Launched In India

    Posted on April 21, 2006

    Robin Alexander, UE Director of International Affairs When President Bush arrived in India in early March, he was greeted by hundreds of thousands of protesters. Fortunately, when I arrived in India a few days later, I received a much warmer welcome. As a representative of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), […]

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  • Accountability for International Development Banks and their Sponsors The Pending COHRE Petition for Atrocities in Guatemala

    Posted on April 21, 2006

    By Bret Thiele and Mayra Gomez A petition filed by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) in September, 2004, based on displacements and killings in Guatemala has been initially accepted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The petition seeks to hold the Government of Guatemala, the Government of the United States, […]

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  • Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste Has Been Released

    Posted on January 30, 2006

    by BRIAN CONCANNON JR. We have great news: Political prisoner Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste, “Fr. Gerry” is right now on a plane in the air from Port-au-Prince to Miami. A cancer center in Florida has agreed to treat his leukemia, so he will get immediate attention for the cancer, as well as for the pneumonia he […]

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  • Korean Peace Project Gives Congressional Testimony

    Posted on January 17, 2006

    Remarks by Eric Sirotkin, Chair of the National Lawyers Guild’s Korean Peace Project, to a Congressional briefing held at the U.S. Capitol on January 25, 2006. Introductory remarks and thanks to Rep. Kucinich My name is Eric Sirotkin. I am an international human rights lawyer and Chair of the National Lawyers Guild Korean Peace Project. […]

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  • Guild delegates meet with Democratic Lawyers in Paris At XVIth Congress of the IADL

    Posted on June 21, 2005

    by Bia Riaz and Curtis Cooper “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” -Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Fresh on the heels of the French referendum rejecting the European Union Constitution, a delegation of 31 members of the NLG’s International Committee attended the XVIth Congress of the International […]

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