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For many Muslim immigrants, Canada has represented a beacon of safety. But in recent years some have begun to question that belief, and wonder aloud if their...

New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in Saudi prisons.

A 7/7 survivor has told how she remembers the attack ‘as if it was yesterday’ as she spoke on the 16th anniversary of the London bombings which almost...

Gaza is occupied – it’s an open-air prison – regardless of the supposed unilateral disengagement staged by Ariel Sharon in 2005. One of the problems is that...

It took years of pressure and concerted lobbying from many civil society organisations, progressives and Muslim groups to finally convince Trudeau to...

Less than a month ago some incidents have occurred in the UK that shows human rights for all is still a myth in a country which claims to be respectful to...

From 2012 to 2019, a total of 985 individuals were arbitrarily stripped of their nationality either by a court order, a royal decree or ministerial order....

Generations of First Nations children were abducted to institutions to solve the country’s ‘Indian problem’. Thousands never returned.

The most devastating thing that is happening is the absence of educational opportunities for youth. We are witnessing the growth of a lost generation. As for...

“Saudi Arabia cannot rehabilitate its international image so long as it harasses, arrests, and tortures its critics into submission or makes them flee abroad”

Two factors make the integration situation in France particularly fraught. First, the French model is essentially one of assimilation. An individual...

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has called on the Biden administration to “end US COVID-19 asylum restrictions” and restore access to asylum “for...

Israel is the “good guy” that shares Canada’s democratic “values”, while Palestinians are the “bad guys” who elect “terrorists”. HRW’s report says: No,...

Humanitarian crisis in Gaza has entered its 11th year as the crippling siege by Israel is making the living conditions of Palestinians more complicated with...

Israel’s deprivations of Palestinians from their rights are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.

Some governments resist the transition to a clean economy either because the costs of switching to renewable sources of energy are prohibitively high –...

Systemic racist police violence against people of African descent in the United States has resulted in a pattern of gross and reliably attested violations of...

The media takes much of the responsibility for this, and while I cannot speak for Europe as a whole, in the UK much of the media is very right-wing and...

Like wars, climate change, and economic disruption of all kinds, sanctions do tremendous damage to vulnerable people. The difference is that economic...

Although more than 700 million vaccine doses have been administered globally, richer countries have received more than 87 per cent, and low-income countries...