• 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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