Abousfian Abdelrazik is a victim of the post-9/11 madness that is corroding human rights in Canada. His case is yet one more reminder that our federal government is determined to continue to violate cherished rights and freedoms. His story is…
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Video from PAW`s Human Rights Forum
Defending human rights when they most need it by Paul S. Graham, March 13, 2009 The hardest time to defend human rights is when they are under attack. This is one of those times. The debris from the September 11,…
“Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama’s Other Ancestors”
Dr. Vincent Harding, the well known American civil rights activist, historian, friend, speech writer, and biographer of Matin Luther King, Jr. will be speaking the progress of civil rights over the course of the last five turbulent decades in a…
‘War’ mentality erodes rights, report says
by Colin Freeze, Globe and Mail, Feb. 25, 2009 Canada is among the countries that have succumbed to a war-on-terror mentality that has infected too many states, a roving panel of judges has found. Calling upon the world to dispense…
Defending Human Rights in a Post-9/11 World
The September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, DC have been followed by two catastrophic wars and growing pressures on human rights in Canada and around the world. Public dissent has become riskier. A climate of fear has…
The Collapse of Omar Khadr’s Guantánamo Trial
by Andy Worthington, Antiwar.com, Oct. 28, 2008 Hardly a day goes by without some extraordinary news from the military commissions, the system of “terror trials” conceived in the office of the vice president in November 2001, and their days now…