Canada

Prisons and residential schools were two sides of the same coin. Two federal institutions with the same goal, albeit one less directly focused on Indigenous...

regrettably, many Afghan refugees do not enjoy their rights under international law even in the western countries. They continue to face violence,...

Canadian law bans the sale of weapons where there is a risk they will be misused. Saudi forces are fighting in the civil war in Yemen, and are the chief...

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...

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

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

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,...

My colleagues who work in the area of race and economics have argued that Canada has a racialized hierarchical structure in the labor force. This is not new....

CBSA remains Canada’s only enforcement agency with no independent civilian oversight to review policies or investigate misconduct.

White Canadians labor under a grave misapprehension that racism is not a problem in our country – particularly as compared with the US. But it is terribly...

Some people will not hear you regardless of how truthfully you speak. They will not hear you regardless of how loudly or lovingly or profoundly you speak...

U.S. News and World Report ranks Canada’s public health-care system as the most well-developed in the world. And yet, Indigenous communities are still not...

While we attempt to separate us from American politics and ways of life, we are unmistakably tied to them ideologically and culturally. The Islamophobia...

The UK prides itself as a global leader in the fight against torture. However, a culture of tolerance to ill-treatment and even torture has developed in the...

"This proposed legislation would be contrary to the values of diversity, acceptance, tolerance and respect for individual rights and religious freedoms,"

NDP health critic Don Davies warned Canada is at the "very cusp" of uncovering serious human-rights abuses affecting vulnerable women including those who are...

Some scholars say regardless of the tolerant face of the country and government’s open arms for the immigrants to accept and assimilate them, Islamophobia...

Health experts and human rights campaigners said the forced sterilizations, which the United Nations considers a form of torture, are symptomatic of the...

There are full of shortcomings in their policies and rules that ultimately compromise the rights of their citizens and of human rights in general.

Human rights violations play a major role in spawning many of today’s crisis.