• NATO: Clarify Response to Deaths at Sea
    Mar 26, 2012
    NATO and its member states should provide information to help clarify the chain of events that led to the death of 63 boat migrants in the Mediterranean a year ago.
  • Canada: Vote No on Migrant Detention Bill
    Mar 16, 2012

    A bill that would require mandatory detention for some migrants would violate Canada’s binding international legal obligations.

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Canada

  • Bill to fight human smuggling only punishes victims
    Mar 30, 2012
    Parliament is currently debating legislation that would require one-year, mandatory detention for certain migrants arriving in Canada, including 16- and 17-year-old children. Ostensibly intended to prevent human smuggling, this bill in fact punishes victims of human smuggling, including those desperately fleeing persecution and violence.
  • NATO: Clarify Response to Deaths at Sea
    Mar 26, 2012
    NATO and its member states should provide information to help clarify the chain of events that led to the death of 63 boat migrants in the Mediterranean a year ago.
  • Joint NGO Letter to the Canadian Minister for National Defence Regarding Investigations into Boat Incident from March-April 2011
    Mar 26, 2012
    We are writing to inquire about internal investigations into the fatal boat episode of March-April 2011, in which a disabled boat filled with migrants fleeing Libya drifted for two weeks in the Mediterranean before landing back in Libya on April 10, 2011. Sixty-three out of the 72 people on board died.
  • Canada: Vote No on Migrant Detention Bill
    Mar 16, 2012

    A bill that would require mandatory detention for some migrants would violate Canada’s binding international legal obligations.

  • Letter to Canadian MP's on C-31 Law
    Mar 16, 2012
    Human Rights Watch is writing to raise concerns about certain provisions of proposed Bill C-31, Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act, that we believe are harmful to refugees and asylum seekers and incompatible with international refugee and human rights law. Although the detention provisions of Bill C-31 are ostensibly proposed to deter human smugglers, Human Rights Watch believes that these provisions, in fact, target refugee claimants fleeing persecution, who will suffer their consequences.
  • Testimony of Elaine Pearson before the House of Commons of Canada regarding Human Rights in Sri Lanka
    Nov 1, 2011
    Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for inviting Human Rights Watch to testify at this timely and important hearing. Over the last two decades, my organization, Human Rights Watch, has documented human rights violations in Sri Lanka, especially violations committed by security forces and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) during the conflict which ended in May 2009.
  • Canada: Don’t Let Bush Get Away With Torture
    Oct 12, 2011
    The Canadian government should investigate possible criminal charges against former US President George W. Bush for his role in authorizing the torture of detainees. Bush is scheduled to visit to Surrey, British Columbia on October 20, 2011.
  • Canada: Intelligence Service Accused of Libya Interrogations
    Sep 28, 2011
    A Libyan-Canadian citizen who was imprisoned for eight years by the Muammar Gaddafi government says that agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) were among foreign agents who interrogated him while he was in Libyan custody for suspected terrorist ties.
  • Canada: Investigate Cheney for Role in Torture
    Sep 24, 2011
    The Canadian government should be prepared to bring criminal charges against former US Vice President Dick Cheney for his alleged role in the torture of detainees when he visits Vancouver on September 26, 2011.
  • Canada: Caribbean Activists Honored
    Jun 9, 2011
    Today, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch will jointly present their 2011 International Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights to the late Dr. Robert Carr and the organization he founded and co-chaired, the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities coalition.
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