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  • Canada: Demand Return of Ex-Child Soldier from Guantanamo
    Jan 29, 2010

    The Canadian government should immediately request the repatriation of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr from Guantanamo even though Canada’s Supreme Court did not order it to do so.

  • Canada/Afghanistan: Investigate Canadian Responsibility for Detainee Abuse
    Nov 27, 2009

    The Canadian government should carry out a full and public inquiry into the alleged torture of detainees whom Canadian forces transferred to Afghan government custody in 2006-07.

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  • Canada: Demand Return of Ex-Child Soldier from Guantanamo
    Jan 29, 2010

    The Canadian government should immediately request the repatriation of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr from Guantanamo even though Canada’s Supreme Court did not order it to do so.

  • Canada/Afghanistan: Investigate Canadian Responsibility for Detainee Abuse
    Nov 27, 2009

    The Canadian government should carry out a full and public inquiry into the alleged torture of detainees whom Canadian forces transferred to Afghan government custody in 2006-07.

  • Namibian Lawyer, Canadian Academic Honored for HIV/AIDS Work
    Jun 12, 2009

    The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch honor Namibian lawyer and activist, Michaela Clayton, and Canadian professor, Viviane Namaste, with the 2009 Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights.

  • Human Rights: Canada Reigns Large No More
    Jun 8, 2009

    Canada has long been recognized as a global leader in human rights and commitment to international law, wielding moral authority much larger than its size. But our government's unreserved support for the conduct of Israel's recent military actions in Gaza has eroded Canada's hard-won credibility and moral standing.

  • Canada Must Lead on Rights
    Feb 25, 2009

    The inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama provides new opportunities for Canada to play a more assertive role on human rights. Important steps might be taken with respect to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Colombia, and international institutions.

  • Canada: Harper Should Raise Khadr Case During Obama's Visit
    Feb 17, 2009

    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper should take advantage of US President Barack Obama’s February 19 visit to Canada to push for repatriation or fair trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian national detained at Guantanamo Bay. Harper should also offer to resettle detainees at Guantanamo who cannot be returned home and who have been promised support by Canadian sponsors.

  • Letter to Prime Minister Harper regarding Omar Khadr and other Guantanamo detainees
    Feb 17, 2009

    We write in advance of US President Barack Obama's first official visit to Canada on February 19, 2009, to request that you address the important question of detainees held at Guantanamo. 

  • Leading Rights Groups Urge Obama to Stop Guantanamo Proceedings Against Child Soldiers
    Jan 12, 2009

    Five leading human rights and civil liberties groups delivered a letter to President-elect Barack Obama on January 12, 2009, urging him to suspend the Guantanamo Bay military commissions and to ensure that the upcoming trial of Omar Khadr, a 22-year-old Canadian, does not proceed. The trial is scheduled to begin on January 26, six days after the presidential inauguration.

  • Letter to President-elect Obama
    Jan 12, 2009

    We write to you regarding Omar Khadr, the 22-year-old Canadian national slated to be tried by military commission at Guantanamo for crimes allegedly committed when he was aged 15. If the trial, now scheduled for January 26, 2009, is allowed to go forward, Omar Khadr will become the first person in recent years to be tried by any western nation for war crimes allegedly committed as a child.

  • The Omar Khadr Case: Redefining War Crimes
    Oct 31, 2008

    George W. Bush's term as president is coming to an end, and he has little to show by way of meting out justice for the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Perhaps this is why his administration seems so desperate to score a victory on the judicial battleground of the military commissions. That its target is Omar Khadr, a child soldier at the time of the alleged offenses, makes the spectacle all the more pathetic to the observer, and tragic for Khadr.

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