• Canada: Investigate Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women
    Dec 17, 2012
    Canada’s federal government should establish a national commission of inquiry into the country’s hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. This recommendation follows today’s release by the British Columbian government of the final report from the provincial Missing Women’s Commission of Inquiry.
  • Canada: Rehabilitate and Reintegrate Ex-Child Soldier
    Sep 29, 2012
    The government of Canada should rehabilitate and reintegrate into society former child soldier Omar Khadr, and seek to remedy abuses he suffered during a decade in United States custody.
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  • Canada: Investigate Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women
    Dec 17, 2012
    Canada’s federal government should establish a national commission of inquiry into the country’s hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. This recommendation follows today’s release by the British Columbian government of the final report from the provincial Missing Women’s Commission of Inquiry.
  • UN Human Rights Council: HRW's Submission for Canada's Universal Periodic Review
    Oct 10, 2012
    This submission, drawn from recent Human Rights Watch research, focuses on four areas of concern regarding Canada’s human rights record: violence against indigenous women and girls, counterterrorism, abuses related to the extractives industry, and the use of cluster munitions. It also examines Canada’s adherence to commitments made in response to its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2009.
  • Canada: Rehabilitate and Reintegrate Ex-Child Soldier
    Sep 29, 2012
    The government of Canada should rehabilitate and reintegrate into society former child soldier Omar Khadr, and seek to remedy abuses he suffered during a decade in United States custody.
  • Canada: Repatriate Canadian Citizen Imprisoned at Guantanamo
    Jul 12, 2012
    Canada should immediately take steps to repatriate Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen currently imprisoned by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and demonstrate Canada's commitment to the basic rights of its own citizen, a close and long-time ally, and to the rule of law.
  • Testimony of Bill Frelick before the Canadian Parliement on Bill C31 Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act
    Apr 30, 2012

    Human Rights Watch has serious concerns that certain provisions of proposed Bill C-31, Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act, 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.

     

  • 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.
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