The unwillingness and inability of the world community for many months now to take a strong stand against the deepening human rights catastrophe in Syria has been a source of…
It is a somber anniversary. Ten years ago nearly 3000 people from 90 countries were killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks – on the four planes, in the Twin…
After so many years, indeed decades, of unrelenting repression the dizzying speed of change in Tunisia over the past week has defied belief. There has been much hope and inspiration…
What a despairing week at Guantánamo Bay, watching Omar Khadr journey through the last layers of military injustice he has been trapped within for many years. In a stunningly punitive…
A week of the military commission trial in the case of the United States vs Omar Khadr has just wrapped up. And no one would have ever predicted where we’ve…
The debate about security and human rights is not just about insidious practices like extraordinary rendition and infamous prison camps like Guantánamo Bay. It is not only about the tension…
It is not my role to “second-guess” military authorities here as to the security measures they feel need to be put in place. With these words, Judge Patrick Parrish, who…
When Canada’s Parliament resumes in just over two weeks time, there is expected to be considerable debate about two issues that have become emblematic of the worrying ways that human…
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…