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Indigenous Children Deserve Justice and Accountability

The Indian Residential Schools Survivors Society is available for survivors and those affected at 1-800-721-0066 or on the 24 hour crisis line...

Delivering a blueprint for a new corporate accountability law in Canada

I am excited to announce the unveiling of model legislation called the Corporate Respect for Human Rights and the Environment Abroad Act. If adopted, this law would...

OUTCOME: Sri Lanka: Woman Migrant Workers Repatriated to Sri Lanka

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 39/21, UPDATE 1 HERE  Around 41 Sri Lankan migrant women, along with some children, who...

OUTCOME: USA: Texas Man Executed Based on Faulty Theory

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 53/21, UPDATE 1 HERE Quintin Jones was executed on 19 May. He was on death...

OUTCOME: France: Trade Unionist Acquitted

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 52/21, UPDATE 1 HERE  On 20 May, long-standing trade unionist Frédéric Vuillaume was acquitted by...

Op-ed: Canada must finally acknowledge Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories

By Michael Lynk and Ketty Nivyabandi Once again, missiles and rockets flew between Israel and Gaza. When the ceasefire was...

OUTCOME: Venezuela: Government Back Tracks on Threats to NGOs

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 46/21, UPDATE 1 HERE On 3 May 2021, after outrage from international and local civil...

OUTCOME: Brazil: Urgent Treatment of Security Bill Approved

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 40/21, UPDATE 1 HERE  On 20 April 2021, the Chamber of Deputies approved the requirement...

OUTCOME: Myanmar: Satire Performers Released from Prison Early

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 147/19, UPDATE 4 HERE Three members of the satirical poetry troupe Peacock Generation were among...

To the Canadian government, provinces and municipalities: Can we get some real action on climate change?

People understand climate change as an environmental issue of course, but tend to forget that it affects our basic human...

Amnesty International Book Club: The Dime Box

Written by Karen Grose. Amnesty International announced The Dime Box as its 2021 March/April Book Club novel to coincide with International Women’s...

Show your solidarity #StandWithBelarus

Since the widely disputed presidential election in August 2020, the Belarusian regime has engaged in a brutal crackdown on all...

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