Winnipeg ex-waitress recalls 1989 human rights case
A former Winnipeg waitress whose fight against sexual harassment changed Canadian law in the 1980s is set to share her story at a national human rights conference.Continue Reading
Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies Sign Memorandum of …
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA– – Mr. Stuart Murray, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights , and Ms. Barbara Hall, President of the Canadian Association of Statutory Human …Continue Reading
Libya: Candidates Should Address Torture, Illegal Detention
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The individual candidates and political entities competing in Libya’s July 7, 2012 national election should explain how they plan to end the ongoing problem of torture and illegal dete…Continue Reading
UN rights chief accuses Eritrea of torture, killings
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused on Monday gold-rich Eritrea, which holds a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast, of carrying out torture and summary executions. Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council there …Continue Reading
U.N. rights chief accuses Eritrea of torture, killings
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused on Monday gold-rich Eritrea, which holds a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast, of carrying out torture and summary executions. Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council there …Continue Reading
Algeria: Long Delays Tainting Terrorism Trials
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The Algerian authorities’ long delays in bringing key terrorism cases to trial undermines the defendants’ right to a fair trial.
(Beirut) – The Algerian autho…Continue Reading
Winnipeg ex-waitress recalls 1989 human rights case
A former Winnipeg waitress whose fight against sexual harassment changed Canadian law in the 1980s is set to share her story at a national human rights conference.Continue Reading
Aboriginal people file hundreds of human rights complaints
The Canadian Human Rights Commission has received more than 300 complaints from aboriginal people and First Nations groups following a change in federal legislation in 2008.Continue Reading
First Nations challenge Ottawa, band governments with human rights complaints
OTTAWA – It's been a year now since aboriginal people have had the full use of the Canadian Human Rights Act, and they're using their new power to hold both the federal government and their own First Nations governments to account.Continue Reading
Seeking change, Aboriginal people turn to Human Rights law
OTTAWA , June 18, 2012 /CNW/ – Aboriginal people and First Nations organizations have filed over 300 human rights complaints since the Canadian Human Rights Act was amended in 2008 to encompass matters …Continue Reading
ADHRB and Bahrain Coordinating Committee to Exhibit at ADC National Convention, June 22-24, 2012
WASHINGTON, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), a U.S. nonprofit organization, will present an informational exhibit about the Bahraini Revolution …Continue Reading
Ethiopia: Pastoralists Forced off Their Land for Sugar Plantations
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The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo valley without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state-run s…Continue Reading
Dismay at NZ training of Indonesian abuser
New Zealand's Indonesian Human Rights Committee is shocked a member of a notorious Indonesian unit has trained in New Zealand.Continue Reading
Human rights violations aboard foreign vessels
New Zealand fishing researchers are welcoming the hint of arrests in South Korea.Continue Reading
Human rights lawyer Moon sets S.Korean presidential bid
SEOUL (Reuters) – A man who was once imprisoned by South Korea's former military dictator, Park Chung-hee, said on Sunday he would seek the centre-left's nomination to run for president, likely setting up a contest with the daughter of the man …Continue Reading