Articles tagged with: Human Rights
HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
7:30 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
Sheraton Centre Hotel – Civic Ballroom
123 Queen Street West – Toronto
Ontario Federation Of Labour
2009 Convention
Will the Real Canadian Please Stand Up!!!
How has 911 changed some Canadians’ …
Court Refuses to Hold U.S. Officials Accountable for Complicity in Torture Abroad
CONTACT: press@ccrjustice.org
November 2, 2009, New York – Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for …
Author Mark Danner has just published a book you might like to read if you are interested in national security, human rights, or American politics and foreign policy. It contains 20 years of his reporting …
From CBC Ottawa
A book that tells the story of Maher Arar and three other Canadians tortured overseas has won the 2009 City of Ottawa Book Award for English non-fiction.
Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians …
By JIM BRONSKILL
OTTAWA – The federal government has rejected a call from MPs to compensate three Canadians tortured overseas.
In a response issued late Monday, the government said it “would be inappropriate” to do so …
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Canada’s spy agency has explicitly told its officers to describe people in “a fair and precise manner” when passing information to other countries – especially ones with …
From CBC News
CSIS ignored human-rights concerns and did not take Omar Khadr’s age into account in deciding to interview him at the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay prison, says a report from the independent committee that …
New Evidence Reveals Police in Europe Target Minorities Excessively
Pervasive use of ethnic and religious stereotypes by law enforcement across Europe is harming efforts to combat crime and terrorism, according to a new report by …
By JIM BRONSKIL
OTTAWA — The Canadian Press, Thursday, May. 21, 2009
The federal government has laid down new rules for Canada’s spy agency following high-profile scandals in which Canadians were tortured overseas.
The ministerial directions to the …
By JANET BAGNALL
The Gazette
Friday, May 15, 2009
In fact, a person in Canada, Australia, Britain and the United States could go an entire lifetime without seeing a Muslim woman whose face is covered with a veil. …
The analysis and argument in this excellent and forceful essay from Britain could just as well apply to Canada (and several other members of the ‘coalition of the willing’), …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Freedom House condemns Pakistan’s recent decision to violate international law by handing over a group of Uighur exiles to the Chinese authorities. The case is a disturbing sign of China’s growing influence in …
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
It is the awkward fate of China, more than any other country, to be arriving late to any number of parties where most other revelers are either long gone or leaving, having …
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African Navanethem Pillay, speaks during a press briefing about the Wrap-up of the Durban II Review Conference at the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, April 24, …
