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One Year On, Progress Flounders on Critical Recommendations to Canada by UN’s Top Anti-Racism Body

More than one year after the United Nations’ top anti-racism body raised serious concerns in its review of Canada’s track...

Amnesty International Deeply Disappointed by Adjournment of Abousfian Abdelrazik’s Human Rights Case

Amnesty International is deeply disappointed by the adjournment of Abousfian Abdelrazik’s civil case against the federal government in which he...

Honduras: Amnesty International to observe trial over killing of human rights defender Berta Cáceres

Amnesty International will observe the trial of eight people accused of the 2016 murder of Honduran human rights defender Berta...

Contempt for Human Rights: Amnesty International calls on Ontario government to withdraw use of Charter of Rights “notwithstanding clause”

Amnesty International today condemned the Ontario government’s tabling of legislation, Bill 31, The Efficient Local Government Act, which invokes the...

Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is Crucial to Canada’s Commitments to Reconciliation: Open Letter to All Senators

Our Nations and organizations urge all Senators to support Bill C-262, a private members bill to ensure that the federal...

Canada: People with irregular status have the right to access essential health care

Amnesty International and ESCR-Net welcome a ground-breaking decision of the UN Human Rights Committee, which, in upholding a complaint against...

OPEN LETTER URGES PRIME MINISTER TO MAKE GOOD ON HIS COMMITMENT TO THE RIGHT TO HOUSING

OTTAWA (August 14, 2018) – At a press conference in Ottawa today advocates released an open letter to Prime Minister...

Open Letter BC Attorney General David Eby

9 August 2018 The Honourable David Eby Attorney General PO Box 9044 Stn Prov Govt Victoria, BC V8W 9E2...

Concerns and questions over establishment of Ministry of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction

In a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau (attached), organizations from across Canada have laid out concerns and questions regarding the...

Canadian Civil Society Organizations Welcome New Commitment from Government of Canada to Support LGBTI Rights Globally following the Equal Rights Coalition Global Conference in Vancouver

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Vancouver, August 7, 2018 – Canadian civil society organizations (CSOs), along with hundreds of LGBTI activists from...

Civil Society calls on Government of Canada for Greater Action on LGBTI Rights Globally

The world will be watching as Vancouver hosts international conference next week Ottawa, August 2, 2018 – As Canada prepares...

BC actions in Site C injunction case a blatant betrayal of its promise to uphold Indigenous rights

As a BC court considers whether to grant an injunction to halt construction of the Site C dam, arguments by...

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