I would like to welcome Professor Margaret Satterthwaite to the PRISM family of respected contributors.
Dr. Satterthwaite co-directs the International Human Rights Clinic and is one of the Faculty Directors of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law. Her research and advocacy focuses on the human rights impacts of [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada issued its ruling today on whether the government has the obligation to repatriate Omar Khadr. The Supreme Court confirmed lower Courts’ rulings that the Canadian government violated Omar’s constitutional rights. The court gave the government the complete freedom to choose a remedy.
Many human rights activists believe that the best remedy [...]
The two independent UN experts on counter-terrorism and torture, and two UN expert bodies on arbitrary detention and enforced or involuntary disappearances issued a wide-ranging study Tuesday on states’ use of secret detention in connection with counter-terrorism activities.
The 222-page joint study, while stressing that it is “not exhaustive,” lists a total of 66 states. Some [...]
I am glad to have seen the launch of PRISM go ahead as scheduled. Although the launch was not planned with media coverage in mind, I believe that the coverage was excellent. Our appreciation goes out to Ian Macleod of the Ottawa Citizen for his coverage.
Thanks go to everyone who made the launch possible and [...]
The years are certainly passing for some of the key milestones in the debate about security and human rights that has raged over the past decade. As such, as we begin a new decade it is certainly worth taking stock of where we stand. Human rights have, without a doubt, taken a debilitating hit in [...]
Countries have always honoured those who fall in battle, and funeral orations have always found honoured places in ancient as well as recent history. In Athens, Pericles’ speech is remembered not only for its language honouring the dead, but also honoured as an “eulogy for Athens itself.” Twenty-two hundred years later, Abraham Lincoln, in his [...]
