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Press Conference, NYC, Sept. 11: International and U.S. Based Organizations to Call for Resignation of Annalena Baerbock from Role as President of UN General Assembly
International and U.S. Based Organizations Call for Resignation of Annalena Baerbock from Role as President of UN General Assembly New York, NY —On 9 September 2025, former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock assumed her functions as President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Progressive International and CODEPINK are […]
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NLG condemns Israeli attack on the “Handala” and demands an immediate end to the siege and starvation of Gaza
The National Lawyers Guild condemns the attack on the UK flagged Handala ship by the Israeli Occupying Army in international waters. The Handala is part of the Freedom Flotilla, a civilian initiative that represents global civil society’s solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people. The Freedom Flotilla is fulfilling an international legal and moral duty, […]
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National Lawyers Guild International Committee Strongly Condemns the United States’ and Israel’s Repeated Attacks on Iran
The National Lawyers Guild International Committee joins the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in condemning in the strongest terms the repeated illegal aggression perpetrated by Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran. We emphasize the legitimate right of Iran, a sovereign nation, to defend itself from this unprovoked aggression as well as its right to […]
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United Kingdom: The “Filton 18” case is a warning sign of democracy and rule of law decline
Concerns by the legal and human rights community about warning signs of erosion of the rule of law and democracy in the United Kingdom The national and international legal and human rights community is alarmed by credible reports of serious violations of fair trial rights and other human rights of Palestine Action activists in the […]
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Stop the New McCarthyism-Resist Repression
Statement by the National Lawyers Guild Warning against the Escalating Repression of the Palestine Solidarity Movement For 19 months, the world has witnessed a livestreamed genocide in Gaza carried out by the Israeli occupation regime and armed and funded by the United States. More than 18,000 children have been killed by Zionist occupation forces. Civilian […]
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National Lawyers Guild International stands with Movement Lawyers across the UK and Europe in Defending the Right to Protest in Berlin, Germany on May 15, 2025 – Nakba Day
May 15th, 2025 National Lawyers Guild International stands with Movement Lawyers across the UK and Europe in Defending the Right to Protest in Berlin, Germany on May 15, 2025 – Nakba Day Contacts: Suzanne Adely, National Lawyers Guild, US: suzanne.adely@gmail.com Oscar Leyens, Attorney, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, UK: oleyens@me.com Berlin Organizers Email: nakba77_berlin@systemli.org Pavel […]
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The National Lawyers Guild stands steadfast in solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FCC) and demands accountability for the May 2,2025 attack on the “Conscience” flotilla vessel
The National Lawyers Guild calls on all countries to meet their obligations to end the genocide on the Palestinian people, and stop all actions that make them complicit in genocide. No goods of any kind have entered Gaza in over eight weeks; medicine and basic first aid supplies are scarce, markets are empty, prices have […]
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NLG IC supports Taxpayers Against Genocide in filing UPR shadow report on the United States
The National Lawyers Guild International Committee, together with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, supported Taxpayers Against Genocide in filing a shadow report to the Universal Periodic Review of the United States by the United Nations Human Rights Council, which will take place in November 2025. Taxpayers Against Genocide is a national grassroots movement fighting […]
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National Lawyers Guild demands justice for Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, legal scholar suspended by Yale Law School for defending Palestine
The National Lawyers Guild and its International Committee express our strongest solidarity with international law scholar, anti-imperialist academic, and Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School, Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi. Dr. Doutaghi has been placed on leave and banned from campus after she was the subject of an attack article […]
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National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for “Sanctuary Universities” to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression
The National Lawyers Guild and its International Committee condemn the escalation of federal repression. The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil demonstrates a dangerous increase in both the criminalization of protest in the United States and the targeting of immigrants. It is also a frightening evolution in the ongoing assault against the movement of students […]
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