By Paul Koring
A constitutional challenge contends the Canadian government can’t strip a citizen of his rights, seize his assets and make it a crime to employ him just because the UN Security …

From The Globe and Mail
After clerking for the Chief Justice of Canada, Jameel Jaffer moved to Manhattan from Ottawa to start a career in corporate law. The Harvard-educated lawyer was poised to reap a small …

Harper government attacks human rights
Closure of CHRC offices will punish marginalized people
OTTAWA, March 25 /CNW Telbec/ – The Public Service Alliance of Canada condemns the Harper government’s decision to close Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) …

Report by Samaa Elibyari’s visit to Naima Ahmad, Monday March 8 2010
1. The context
I am sure you have been following the news about the case of Naima Ahmad, a Canadian resident of Egyptian origin living in …

By Will Pavia
A Muslim woman was barred from boarding a flight after she refused to undergo a full body scan for religious reasons.
The passenger was passing through security at Manchester Airport when she …

By Moira Welsh
The words were shocking and so unfamiliar that Cheryl Khan’s friends could not believe her boss used them.
“Paki,” he called her, according to Khan’s testimony before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. “Half-nigger babies,” …

By David Cole
In the fall of 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen on his way home from Tunisia, was pulled out of line by US officials while changing planes at New York’s John F. Kennedy …

By Murray Brewster

OTTAWA — A former governor of Kandahar who is accused of personally torturing Afghans might have been removed from office as far back as 2006 if Canadian officials hadn’t defended him, according to …

By Alison Boggs
A Coeur d’Alene man of Middle Eastern descent left his pickup parked downtown Thursday night and returned to find it spray-painted with swastikas and a racial slur and a front tire slashed.
The Kootenai …

CONFRONTING THE “WAR ON TERROR”:
No Security Without Human Rights.
Thursday, December 10, 7 pm
Ottawa Public Library Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe
December 10 is International Human Rights Day. Ironically, it is also the seventh anniversary of Mohamed Harkat’s detention …

By Ron Atkey
There could not have been a starker contrast between the visions of our security intelligence agency and our national police force, described by Wesley Wark in The Globe and Mail last week (Post-9/11 …

Sexual Assault/Rape Crisis Centre of Peel launches the And Still We Rise Gala featuring a personal narrative of one of our own, Jasteena Kaur Dhillon, a genocide watcher, a specialist in legal infrastructure building in …

By Sharry Aiken, Catherine Dauvergne, Donald Galloway, and Audrey Macklin
The human rights of refugees in Canada are under siege. The immigration minister is moving towards new legislation regarding refugees. His recent actions suggest this will …

By Jane Taber
The word “cover-up” is just on the tip of Alex Neve’s tongue. But in a morning press conference, Amnesty International’s Canadian chief wouldn’t go as far to characterize the Afghan detainee situation as …