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Violence and resource development – lessons from a new Manitoba cumulative impacts study

by Craig Benjamin and Jackie Hansen A new report describes the devastating impact that decades of hydroelectric development have had...

Violence and resource development – lessons from a new Manitoba cumulative impacts study

by Craig Benjamin and Jackie Hansen A new report describes the devastating impact that decades of hydroelectric development have had...

Understanding the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

In recent months, the federal government and a number of provinces and territories have made significant, welcome commitments to uphold...

OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU RIGHT TO HOUSING

The Canada/Saudi Diplomatic Spat: It’s all about human rights

By Alex NeveSecretary General, Amnesty International Canada Last week, two prominent and courageous women’s rights activists, Samar Badawi and Nassima...

The fearless young leaders the world needs right now

AMERICAS “The only way to heal was to take action” – Jaclyn Corin, 17, USA I never imagined it would...

Four years on the lonely road to justice for Canada’s largest mining disaster

It’s been four long years since the Mount Polley copper mine breached its tailings pond, cutting a 9-kilometre path of...

Four Years On: Yezidi Women’s Struggles Continue

By Tamara Moussa Beirut, Lebanon. On December 10, 2017, Iraq declared its victory over the armed group calling itself Islamic...

Four Years On: Yezidi Women’s Struggles Continue

By Tamara Moussa Beirut, Lebanon. On December 10, 2017, Iraq declared its victory over the armed group calling itself Islamic...

Defending human rights is the right thing to do

Renowned Ethiopian journalist, Eskinder Nega, has been imprisoned nine times simply for doing his job. He was released earlier this...

Take action to improve environmental assessment in BC!

The BC government has launched an Environmental Assessment Revitalization process as part of its commitment to reshape the way BC...

Defending the indefensible: Five particularly insidious arguments made by the Government of British Columbia in the Site C injunction hearing

“A B.C. government, led by me, will officially adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples…I will...

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