Talk:Lawyers Without Borders

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Lawyers without Borders is not a "sans frontières" organisation.

The information below is taken from their website:

Are you and Avocats sans Frontieres the same organization? No. There is absolutely no connection between Avocats sans Frontieres (AsF) and Lawyers Without Borders, Inc. "Lawyers Without Borders" is a registered trade mark in the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Australia and the United States office of Patent and Trade Marks of our organization alone. There is only one "Lawyers Without Borders" with an American headquarters. Currently our Canadian volunteers are planning an office in Toronto, and that will be the only other LWOB operating under our trademark and abiding by the same Charter and neutrality mandate of the mother headquarters

I would recommend that this page not be linked to the "sans frontières" organisations, and that, instead, Avocats sans Frontières [1] be linked to instead.

Perhaps a disambiguation page is in order, as well?

LordKrishna 22:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand how that makes Lawyers Without Borders not a "Sans Frontières" organization, they were just started by different people in different countries. "Sans Frontières" and "Without Borders" refer to the same type of organization and are both based on Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. There is no one big organization that runs these groups, they are just linked by a common naming convention and vision for their professions, and the existence of more than one organization for a given profession doesn't mean one is more legitimate than another just because they have names in different languages and were started in different countries. For example, there are more than a dozen completely separate "Engineers Without Borders" organizations. Why should there only be one "Lawyers Without Borders"?

Avocats sans Frontières does not have an English Wikipedia page to link to, which is probably the reason they do not have a link on the Without Borders page. The "Sans Frontières" template is very out of date and incomplete.

Jonathansfox 16:33, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I added it as a "Sans Frontières" Organization due to on the Wikipedia "Without Borders" page it has it listed as one. One of these must change. The name clearly has "Without Borders" on there so I think my edit should remain.

Wikipedialuva 5:29, 20 March 2008 (UTC)