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National First Nations group applauds Labrador Innu groups’ human rights complaint
Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 15, 2016. Blackstock, a First Nations advocate who led a landmark court challenge against Ottawa is applauding Labrador's Innu groups for filing a complaint against the federal government with the Canadian Human Rights Commission. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
canada
Human Rights Commission joins call for public inquiry on sexual violence in prisons
Marie-Claude Landry, Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, takes part in a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. The Canadian Human Rights Commission says federal prisons and staff are not doing enough to address sexual coercion and violence against inmates. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
canada
Ottawa violating obligations toward Labrador’s Innu during treaty talks, says human rights commission report
Innu Nation Grand Chief Etienne Rich poses for a photo with Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey at a government announcement in St. John's on July 10, 2021. A new report from the Canadian Human Rights Commission says Ottawa is violating its obligations toward Indigenous Peoples during treaty negotiations with Labrador's Innu Nation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sarah Smellie
world
G7 chides China over human-rights abuses in Xinjiang, demands fresh COVID-19 origins probe
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, U.S. President Joe Biden, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in attend a working session during G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain, June 12, 2021. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS
olympics
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: What to know about the calls for a boycott
A Chinese flag flutters in front of the IOC headquarters during a protest by activists of the International Tibet Network against the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Februay 3, 2021 in Lausanne. - A coalition of campaign groups issued an open letter calling on world leaders to boycott the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics over China's rights record. The Games are scheduled to begin on February 4 next year, just six months after the delayed summer Tokyo Olympics, but preparations have been overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Ethiopia says Eritrean troops have started withdrawing from Tigray
FILE PHOTO: A burned tank stands near the town of Adwa, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 18, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo
canada
Ottawa settles human-rights complaint on research chairs
FILE PHOTO: A Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 22, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo
politics
Trudeau defends his effort to ban Chinese goods made with forced labour
A cotton picker works in the field in Hami in northwest China's Xinjiang region Friday, Oct. 09, 2020. H&M products were missing from major e-commerce platforms including Alibaba and JD.com following calls by state media for a boycott over the Swedish retailer's decision to stop buying cotton from Xinjiang. (Chinatopix Via AP)
opinion
China’s clumsy sanctions on Canada’s opposition backfires
Campbell Clark
world
China sanctions Canadian parliamentarian, human rights sub-committee over ‘genocide’ label
FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, people line up at the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. A small core of international lawyers and activists are prodding leading Olympic sponsors to acknowledge China's widely reported human-rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetans and other minorities.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
u.s. politics
Biden talks tough on human rights in China
President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
canada
Visitor restrictions imposed by Ontario group home discriminated against 14-year-old boy with disabilities: tribunal
Pamela Libralesso and her 14-year-old son, at their home in Barrie, Ont., on Sept. 2, 2020.
world
Ethiopia confirms massacre by Eritrean soldiers
Troops in Eritrean uniforms walk in the town of Bizet, Ethiopia, March 14, 2021.Picture taken March 14, 2021.REUTERS/Baz Ratner
world
Caster Semenya battling sports regulators in new bid for Olympic entry
FILE - In this Friday, May 3, 2019 file photo, South Africa's Caster Semenya crosses the line to win the gold in the women's 800-meter final during the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar. Caster Semenya will not defend her world title in the 800 meters after a Swiss judge ruled that she must take testosterone-suppressing drugs to compete in international events, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
world
China responds angrily to Canada’s sanctions over human-rights abuses in Xinjiang
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2018, file photo, an Uyghur woman uses an electric-powered scooter to fetch school children as they ride past a picture showing China's President Xi Jinping joining hands with a group of Uighur elders at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region. Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 welcomed the United States, European Union, Canada and Britain taking joint action to impose sanctions on senior Chinese officials over human rights abuses in China’s far western Xinjiang region. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
opinion
Canada must sanction Chinese officials for their gross human-rights abuse of the Michaels
Colin Robertson
theatre & performance
Verbatim play Being Here looks at refugees in Canada and their sponsors
Behind the Scenes - Adrian Neblett in Being Here: The Refugee Project / Photo by Mark Halliday BEING HERE: The Refugee Project World Premiere. Refugees from around the world and their Canadian sponsors—from Victoria to Halifax—share their experiences in their own words; their reasons for escaping and their reasons for helping. Victoria, BC...From March 16 - 21, 2021, the Belfry Theatre will be streaming BEING HERE: The Refugee Project, a filmed version of a powerful verbatim play (documentary theatre) about refugees who have come to Canada and their sponsors.
world
U.S. Secretary of State blasts Chinese ‘aggression,’ accuses North Korea of ‘systemic’ rights abuses
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - MARCH 17: In this handout image provided by South Korean Foreign Ministry, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong (not in pictured) pose for the media before their meeting at the Foreign Ministry on March 17, 2021 in Seoul, South Korea. Blinken is visiting South Korea for two days with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to discuss major challenges in the region, including issues pertaining to China and North Korea. (Photo by South Korean Foreign Ministry via Getty Images)
opinion
A vaccination-passport program would be an unfair waste of time
Gary Mason
politics
Office probing human rights abuses by Canadian companies abroad to begin investigating complaints
Members of Uighur minority hold placards as they demonstrate to ask for news of their relatives and to express their concern about the ratification of an extradition treaty between China and Turkey, on February 22, 2021 near China consulate in Istanbul - After 20 years in a Chinese prison, Abdullah Abdulrahman joined 50,000 other Uighurs and fled to Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's once decried the Muslim minority's "genocide" in Xinjiang. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP) (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
Ten years after the start of Syria’s civil war, refugees deserve a place to call home
Kim Samuel
politics
Advocacy group for blind Canadians says Ottawa’s funding application was inaccessible
Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, Carla Qualtrough, takes part in a news conference during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
opinion
There’s only one group of Canadians the government can get away with torturing
Robyn Urback
canada
Federal prisons still use solitary confinement, report says
A corrections officer opens the door to a cell in the segregation unit at the federal Fraser Valley Institution for Women during a media tour, in Abbotsford, B.C., Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. Independent reviews of the hundreds of inmates placed in segregation over the past year found only a handful were inappropriate, new government data indicate. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
world
China’s new demands for ‘national unity’ take the state deeper into Xinjiang homes
FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2018 file photo, a mural depicting Uighur and Han Chinese men and women carrying the national flag of China, decorates the wall of a home at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region. Outside experts say the government's birth control campaign for Muslim minorities is part of a broader effort to forcibly assimilate the Uighur and Kazakh populations and rewire their culture, language and identity. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
opinion
The silence of Canadian authorities regarding the death of Karima Mehrab is deafening
Margaret Jenkins
politics
Human rights adviser presses Trudeau to call out China’s actions in Xinjiang as genocide
FILE PHOTO: Workers walk by the perimeter fence of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre in Dabancheng in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
canada
UN, rights watchdogs say Canada isn’t living up to new global campaign against arbitrary detention
Syrian refugees walk through a camp for displaced people near the village of Kafr Aruq, in Idlib province, Syria, on Jan. 28, 2021.
world
Half London councils found using Chinese surveillance tech linked to Uyghur abuses
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opinion
The changing of the guard in Washington has prompted change in Saudi Arabia
Rashid Husain Syed
world
Biden says China will face repercussions for human rights violations
Members of the Muslim Uighur minority hold placards as they demonstrate in front of the Chinese consulate on December 30, 2020, in Istanbul, to ask for news of their relatives and to express their concern after China announced the ratification of an extradition treaty with Turkey. - The Chinese parliament ratified on December 26, 2020 an extradition treaty signed in 2017 with Ankara, a text that Beijing wants to use in particular to speed up the return of certain Muslim Uyghurs suspected of "terrorism" and who are refugees in Turkey. But the head of Turkish diplomacy said on December 30, 2020 that Ankara was not going to return Muslim Uyghurs to China, despite Beijing's ratification of an extradition treaty that worries the 50,000 members of this community who have taken refuge in the country. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP) (Photo by BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images)
politics
Conservatives urge moving Beijing Olympics over Uyghur atrocities, but Trudeau disputes use of term ‘genocide’
Members of the Uyghur diaspora and their allies protest outside the Chinese embassy on the 10th anniversary of the Urumqi riots in Toronto on Friday, July 5, 2019. Tijana Martin/ The Globe and Mail