Jan 8, 2018 Toronto Star – Vicky Mochama Treatment of women in Canadian prisons a human rights travesty The number of women incarcerated is growing at alarming rates, especially Indigenous women (37% over the last ten years without crime rate … [Read more...]
HR and compassion…
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Sept 6, 2015 Huffington Post / Human Rights Watch - Kenneth Roth The Refugee Crisis That Isn’t The current furor around the refugee crisis in Europe is misplaced says Human Rights Watch. In fact, there is a political crisis around refugee … [Read more...]
Equal…
September 28, 2014 by
Sept 26, 2014 Toronto Star – Carol Goar Parliament finally debates slain aboriginal women - New Democrats force a parliamentary debate on murdered aboriginal women, with revealing results. Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq was called on … [Read more...]
Preparedness?
May 29, 2014 by
May 29, 2014 CTV News – Janet Dirks Chilling video teaches Alberta students how to deal with school shootings The University of Alberta has produced a video on how to deal with a shooter on campus. The 90 video called “Shooter on Campus: … [Read more...]
Private immigration detention at YVR…
February 6, 2014 by
Feb 6, 2014 Vancouver Sun Editorial Why did Lucia Vega Jimenez die? Jimenez was a 42 year old hotel worker in Canada from Mexico, working and saving to support an ill mother back home. Arrested On Dec. 1, she hanged herself while in the … [Read more...]
Blaming the victims
September 16, 2013 by
Sept 6, 2013 – CBC News Ottawa's research on trafficking of aboriginal women panned - Some in aboriginal community accuse government of blaming victims A RFP by the federal government is asking for researchers to look at the potential for … [Read more...]
NCR in bombing attempt?
September 16, 2013 by
July 29, 2013 Vancouver Sun – Louise Dickson, Times Colonist B.C. Legislature bomb plot accused John Nuttall in psychiatric hospital Defense lawyer Thomas Morino says that Nutall, (and probably his co-accused Amanda Marie Korody) has been … [Read more...]