Last week the Mental Health Commission of Canada unveiled Canada’s first national mental health strategy through its publication: “Changing Directions, Changing Lives: The Mental Health Strategy for Canada,” thus fulfilling one of the key elements of the mandate conferred by the federal government in 2007.
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| Université Laval moot team: (l to r) Élise Paiement, jury member Serge Gakwandi, Isabel Charron, and Morgane Aroua. |
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Several human rights issues have been raised in the Alberta election campaign to date. Perhaps most significantly, the Wildrose party’s platform on Justice, Policing and Human Rights proposes major changes to the Alberta Human Rights Act, changes that are both substantive and procedural in nature. I will set out those proposed changes in this post, and raise some related concerns.
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My daughter stopped me before I went to work on March 7 and said, “Mom, you have to watch this!” It was a half-hour video produced by the American charity Invisible Children that she received from two friends via Facebook.
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| The value of military intervention in the conflict in Syria was much discussed at the conference on the responsibility to protect. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra |
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Bil'in, Occupied Palestinian Territories, West Bank, 2011. A Palestinian child shows a tear gas bomb, one of a number of types used by the Israeli military on protesters during weekly demonstrations against the Occupation. Photo: Sofia Mariam Ijaz
Rwanda, 2002. 'When I reflect on my lost childhood, I have a feeling of extreme sadness. I lament when I remember all those men who repeatedly raped me during the genocide, those same men who broke and destroyed me and every single aspect of my life. Those same men who killed me, slowly but very effectively.' — Marie Mukabatsinda Photo: Samer Muscati
Damascus, Syria, 2010. An Iraqi boy rides his bicycle in Jaramana, a district 10 km outside the main capital of Damascus where thousands of Iraqi refugees fled to in 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion. An estimated one million Iraqi refugees currently reside in Syria. Photo: Sofia Mariam Ijaz
University of Toronto law student Sofia Ijaz had several of her photos on display at the International Human Rights program's photo exhibit. Photo: Heather Gardiner
Onlookers admire the photos in the refugee rights section. Photo: Heather Gardiner
Photos displayed in the gender-based violence section. Photo: Heather Gardiner
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011. Sylie and another intern at a tea garden in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Most of the workers on the British-owned tea plantations are women. Photo: Sylvie McCallum Rougerie
Morgan Sim has been involved in the 160 Girls Project, which is test case litigation for girls who were raped in Meru, Kenya. Photo: Heather Gardiner
Photos displayed in the international criminal law section. Photo: Heather Gardiner
Tuol Sleng Prison, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2011. Cells at the S-21 Prison in Cambodia, now the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide. Between 15,000 and 30,000 prisoners were held here during Pol Pot's reign (1975-1979). In 2003, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia was jointly established by the United Nations and the Cambodian government in order to bring senior members of the Khmer Rouge to justice. Photo: Grace Hutton
Christine Wadsworth, pictured here, interned in the judges' chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania in 2011.
Renu Mandhane is the director of the International Human Rights program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Photo: Heather Gardiner
This pillar displays the names and internships of all 300 interns who have participated in the International Human Rights program. Photo: Heather Gardiner
The purpose of Black History Month is to right a wrong; to insert the contributions of black people into our collective consciousness because the white male writers and educators did not include them. There were a number of groups that these scholars excluded, not because they were mean or evil, but because they were individuals of their time and hampered by the limited vision of reality that the present tense confines.
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While it is easy to grasp the need for protection of the right to practise one’s faith in order to avoid religious persecution, recent events involving religious extremism and reactions to real and perceived — or misperceived — extremism have highlighted other tensions and challenges that involve the state. In addition, with the recent announcement of the creation of Canada’s new Office for Religious Freedom, it seems like an opportune moment to reflect on the connection between faith, secularism, and human rights.
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On Nov. 25, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre had the privilege of hosting the leader of the Achuar people of Peru, Peas Peas Ayui. There are 11,000 Achuar people who live in the Peruvian Amazon. Ayui is the newly elected leader of the National Achuar Federation, representing 42 Achuar communities. He came to speak about his request to Talisman Energy Inc. to not drill for oil on Achuar land. Gregor MacLennan, the Peru program co-ordinator for Amazon Watch provided interpretation and participated in the question and answer session that followed.
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