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13 Jan 2009, 6:10 am
By the protection of the law, human rights are secured; withdraw that protection and they are at the mercy of wicked rulers or the clamor of an excited people. [read post]
1 Dec 2008, 7:38 pm
"The HRCP argued that the death penalty was discriminatory, unfair and utterly inefficient and must be abandoned in accordance with the international human rights law. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 1:36 pm
MORE ON THOSE CANADIAN KANGAROO COURTS: The scandal-plagued Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has had a rough year â€â [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 11:02 am
The Commission also had the capacity to address human rights situations by passing resolutions which are the basis for the mobilization of shame - one of the main tools available to affect countries who violate human rights but who often cannot be held accountable in courts or other adjudicative bodies. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 7:15 pm
He is a criminal defendant when it comes to charging him with murder, but not when it comes to furnishing him with the rights and protections due to anyone charged with a crime. [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 6:54 am by Communications and Public Affairs
  I believe that my attachment with Caritas – a well-respected Catholic social justice organization with offices around the world – will give me better access to the Human Rights Commission, government ministries, and other NGOs than if I were working on my own. [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 6:54 am by Communications and Public Affairs
  I believe that my attachment with Caritas – a well-respected Catholic social justice organization with offices around the world – will give me better access to the Human Rights Commission, government ministries, and other NGOs than if I were working on my own. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 10:19 pm by MTTLR Blog Editor
A suit in the European Court of Human Rights for an injunction against the LHC was summarily rejected without an official ruling.33 But the Court is allowing the suit to proceed to judgment on the merits of a possible violation to the rights to life and to private family life, as guaranteed under the European Convention of Human Rights.34 In the meantime, the LHC has suffered several technical setbacks that will prevent full operation, and consequently… [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 1:57 am
If that was the main issue, I would have said, 'Too bad. [read post]
21 Sep 2008, 4:00 am
I needed a fellow criminal defense lawyer to encourage me to continue with t'ai chi, and it also helped that one of my two main teachers is a lawyer, Len Kennedy. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 3:04 am
CANADA'S KANGAROO COURT UPDATE: Anyone who runs an online message board, from the lowliest vanity blogger to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, can be charged under federal human rights law if visitors to their site post hateful comments, according to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. . . . [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 1:36 am by Darius
Judicial Diversity: Strategies for ChangeEvening SeminarKeynote Speaker: Baroness Usha Prashar CBE, Chairman, Judicial Appointments Commission, United Kingdom6 - 8pm, Thursday, 18 September 2008Venue: The Atrium, Law Library, Distillery Building, Church Street, Dublin 7 Organised by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, University College Cork (UCC)The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and the Centre for… [read post]
4 Sep 2008, 9:00 am
  He subsequently took the case to the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 4:10 am
CANADIAN "HUMAN RIGHTS" KANGAROO COURT UPDATE: Punished First, Acquitted Later: My lawyers have just received a copy of a letter from the Alberta Human Rights Commission dismissing the complaint of â € œdiscriminationâ €  [read post]
2 Aug 2008, 2:20 pm
MORE ON CANADA'S "HUMAN RIGHTS" KANGAROO COURTS: When all else fails, change the subject. [read post]
22 Jul 2008, 2:39 am
Once upon a time, employee meal and rest periods were an obscure legal backwater, which was the exclusive province of hard-core human resources nerds and bureaucrats. [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 6:21 pm
It is the dreary fact that comedians are the latest targets of Canada's human-rights commissions. [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 12:19 pm
During the proceedings before the Governor=s Commission onthe Administration of Lethal Injection and the subsequent litigation in Lightbournev. [read post]