*Author’s note: all quotations are taken from this report by Amnesty International, unless otherwise noted. Australia’s current policy on refugee and asylum-seekers is that “no person who arrives in the country by boat seeking asylum…
After a long delay, the South African Human Rights Commission’s case against controversial journalist and former ambassador to Uganda Jon Qwelane was heard in the South African High Court. Qwelane’s case, now into it’s ninth…
Fredericton police started a 90-day body camera project this past week. Six members of the police force, 3 Traffic Safety officers, and 3 of the Primary Response Team, will be equipped with these cameras. Deputy…
Récemment, soit en date du 14 mars et du 21 mars 2017, la Cour européenne a rendu deux jugements concernant des cas de détention irrégulière. Ces arrêts ont donc permis de circonscrire avec plus de…
Following the announcement by the PEI government in January, recommending the closer of five rural schools. Many stakeholders from across the province have united to protest what they perceive to be an attack on their…
Autant en droit québécois qu’en droit européen, le droit à la liberté d’expression est assujetti à certaines limites dans la mesure où l’exercice de ce droit peut porter atteinte aux droits fondamentaux d’autres individus, à savoir…
Mr.Lorne Grabher of Nova Scotia is not allowed to keep his license plate, which simply has his last name on it. It was recently cancelled by the province’s Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV). His son,…
Recently, there have been two high profile sexual assault cases coming out of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia. The case in Newfoundland involved an on-duty police officer who had sexual intercourse with an intoxicated…
Two students from Webber Academy in Calgary filed a human rights complaint against their school, which was heard by the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal in February 2012. As discussed in a previous post, these two…
From Peace Bonds to Emergency Protection Orders Until recently, those living in First Nations communities in Nova Scotia did not have the same emergency protections against domestic violence as other Nova Scotians. That meant that First Nations…
