COLAP Statement on the Philippine Anti-Terror Bill
The Anti-Terror Bill in the Philippines Violates Human Rights and Due Process of Law
The Confederation of Lawyers in Asia and the Pacific or COLAP,...
IADL resolution against violations of academic freedom in Japan
The following resolution was adopted by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers Council meeting on 25 October 2020:
IADL RESOLUTION CONDEMNING JAPANESE GOVERNMENT’S INTERVENTION IN...
Press conference in Italy highlights dramatic repression facing lawyers in Turkey
The Giuristi Democratici (Italian Democratic Jurists), an IADL member organization, organized a press conference together with the National Bar Association and the Union of...
National Lawyers Guild calls upon President-Elect Obama to close Guantanamo, opposes national security courts
After September 11, 2001, George W. Bush established the Guantánamo Bay prison to enable the United States to imprison non-Americans indefinitely outside the reach...
Edre Olalia: How my friend became another victim of Duterte’s fight against rights defenders
The following article by Edre U. Olalia, president of the National Union of People's Lawyers of the Philippines and member if the IADL Bureau,...
COLAP and IADL Statement on the Panmunjom Declaration
The Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific (COLAP) and International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) welcome the "Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity...
NUPL: Attack on Lawyers Anywhere is an Attack on Lawyers Everywhere
Statement of National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers on the Day of the Endangered Lawyer
ATTACKS ON LAWYERS ANYWHERE IS AN ATTACK ON LAWYERS EVERYWHERE
Today, on...
National Union of People’s Lawyers of the Philippines concludes Fifth Congress
The National Union of People's Lawyers in the Philippines, an IADL member organization, convened its Fifth Congress on 19 October 2019. The NUPL has...
IADL/COLAP fact-finding commission releases final report on “Waitresses Case”
An International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and the Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific (COLAP) fact-finding commission released the final report...
Statement by Democratic Lawyers Association (Pakistan) about terrorist attack on lawyers in Quetta on...
A tragic incident of barbaric attack on lawyers in the city of Quetta on 8th August, 2016.
A terrorist firstly short down the President of...