Op-Ed: No Debate Should Be Closed
The topic of abortion speaks to far more than a clash between the right to life of an unborn child and a woman’s autonomy rights. It has illustrated the dangerous nature of civil society to quash what...
View ArticleOp-ed: Freedom of Religion under fire from Canadian Law Deans
Published in the Vancouver Sun on Thursday, Douglas Todd’s ”Proposed Christian law school at Trinity Western under fire because of university’s anti-gay rules” paints an inaccurate picture. The...
View ArticleUN Special Rapporteur discusses freedom of religion or belief in Canada
Earlier this week, United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, engaged in an online dialogue with several distinguished guests on Canada and the future of...
View ArticleZero Dark Thirty – not over for Afghan Detainees
According to a report released this week by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), despite domestic and international efforts to address ill-treatement, torture remains a...
View ArticleUN to hear Social Rights Complaints
Referred to as a “major breakthrough,” soon individuals will be able to file social rights complaints with the United Nations through the Optional Protocol under the International Covenant on Economic,...
View ArticleChief Spence submits urgent appeal to UN
Together with the International Indian Treaty Council and the Mushkegowuk People of Attawapiskat First Nation, on 10 February 2013 Chief Theresa Spence filed an Early Warning/Urgent Action Request to...
View ArticleHealth Care as a form of Torture
While Canadians enjoy public health care, a newly released report calls for an international debate to delve into what practices may be available and how they are enforced around the world. The United...
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Canada funding grassroots opposition to ‘anti-gay’ bill in Uganda
The federal government recently came under fire for their “hypocritical” stance on homosexual rights in Uganda. This arose when it was revealed that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)...
View ArticleHungary Criminalizes Homelessness (again)
The battle to criminalize homelessness in Hungary is not new. In November 2012, the Hungarian Constitutional Court annulled previous legislation that criminalized living in public spaces for going...
View ArticleIs the UN defending or watering down human rights?
What is a “basic human right” anymore? We hear this phrase all of the time, especially in law school, but this prevalence of use is weakening its revered position. Where some countries need to be...
View ArticleNew Ontario regulations: Vindication for Denied Haircuts?
Last year around this time, a complaint was filed with the Ontario Human Rights Commission when a Toronto barber and practicing Muslim denied a woman’s request for a haircut as against his religion. It...
View ArticleProfessor and University Clash over Religious Accommodation
A sociology professor at York University is not happy with how the administration recently handled a request for accommodation. For religious reasons, a male student requested to be excused from a...
View ArticleHuman Rights Complaint over Dairy
A school in Hamilton, Ontario faces a human rights complaint over its handling of a student’s life-threatening allergy to eggs and dairy. According to the mother, Lynne Glover, after two years of...
View ArticleCanadian expats seek voting rights
The phrase “just visiting” will make every Liberal cringe as forming a famous and relentless attack on the legitimacy of Michael Ignatieff to preside over the Canadian government after decades outside...
View ArticleFailed Human Rights Complain over “being shy”
Loth I am to add to this student’s publicity, but there is an untold story regarding the University of Toronto (U of T) student who lost his bid to skip class because he’s shy. No doubt related to York...
View ArticleON: Equal pay for employees with disabilities
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal will no longer tolerate employers paying workers with developmental disabilities less than the statutory minimum. The tribunal awarded Terri-Lynn Garrie, a St....
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