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  The government of Canada has filed for an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada over a September 29 Federal Court decision to uphold a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal order requiring Ottawa to compensate First Nations (FN) children for the role federal officers played in Canada’s denial of child and family services to FN members who live on reserve in Canada’s harsh north. [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 4:07 am by Josh Richman
And it's been so great to see the Keep It On Coalition and the other work that Access Now does, you know, both broadly and narrowly really take the global human rights view in a way that is just completely complementary to the work we do at EFF we just, we are so happy to be part of a movement now. [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 8:07 am by Preston Lim
On the first point, Justice Abella emphasized that in light of the postwar development of international human rights law, “there is no longer any tenable basis for restricting the application of customary international law to relations between states. [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 12:30 pm by Lyle Denniston
”  The First Amendment protects the rights “of the people,” and the 1993 law protects the religious rights of “persons. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 2:34 pm
As a result, I conducted interviews with the newly established national Human Rights Commission and wrote an analysis of its first annual report, amongst other side projects. [read post]
The resolution also supports the ICC’s decision to investigate Putin and Russia officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and systematic human rights abuses. [read post]
The SCC, a hybrid court created in 2015 operating in partnership with the UN, seeks to fight against impunity for crimes under international law and human rights violations committed in the country since the start of the conflict. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 6:46 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
As of August 20, 2014, the WHO reported that 2,615 people had contracted the disease, of whom over 1,427 have died, slightly less than the combined cases (2,387) and deaths (1,590) from previous outbreaks…In July 2014, two U.S. citizen health workers contracted Ebola in Liberia and were first provided medication that had shown promise in animal studies but that had not yet been tested in humans. [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 4:58 am by Benjamin Wittes
The significance of the case lies in the face that for the first time in the Court’s history, a Convention Party argued that the right to liberty enshrined in Article 5 did not apply in an active phase of an international armed conflict, where IHL governs in place of applicable ECHR human rights law. [read post]
While government records state that about 6,000 drug dealers were killed, many human rights activists and groups peg the number to be much higher. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 8:06 am
In establishing the OEIGWG, the Human Rights Council also decided that the first two sessions of the OEIGWG would be dedicated to conducting constructive deliberations on the content, scope, nature, and form of the future Treaty. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 2:06 pm
US sex offender laws may do harm than good, according to a recent report from Human Rights Watch. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 4:04 pm by INFORRM
The application applied to the European Court of Human Rights on 17 March 2011 alleging that the Court judgment was a violation of her Article 8 rights. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 9:51 am by kblocher@hslf.org
As a native Minnesotan, I’ve seen first-hand the value of gray wolves to our natural ecosystems. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 10:58 am
begins by arguing for the protection of the overweight and obese from discrimination through human rights laws. [read post]
6 May 2020, 7:54 pm
Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World/li>Mark A. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 1:46 pm
Undertaken at the request of the Human Rights Council to the OHCHR in 2018 (resolution 38/13 by consensus), the ARP III Project was charged "to identify and analyse challenges, opportunities, best practices and lessons learned with regard to non-state-based grievance mechanisms that are relevant to the respect by business enterprises for human rights, . . . and to submit a report thereon to the Human Rights Council for consideration at… [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 8:42 am by Catherine Coulter
Readers of this blog may recall reading in 2014 about the Ontario Divisional Court upholding the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal’s order for 10 years of back pay and employee reinstatement. [read post]