Category: News Releases

MONTREAL – MAY 14, 2005 – The campaign against religious arbitration of family law in Ontario received important backing today from international human rights and women’s rights leaders as well as experts and academics gathered at Rights & Democracy in Montreal. The unprecedented international support came out of an experts meeting organized by Rights & […]

MONTREAL – July 14, 2005 – Yan Christian Warinussy of West Papua, Indonesia, is the winner of the 2005 John Humphrey Freedom Award, Rights & Democracy announced today. Mr Warinussy is Executive Director of the Institute for Research, Analysing and Development of Legal Aid, also known as LP3BH, an organization committed to defending the rights […]

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KAHNAWAKE – Aug 23, 2005 – Violence against women and other human rights issues affecting indigenous peoples around North, Central and South America will be at the centre of a groundbreaking international meeting of native women leaders taking place at Kahnawake this week. Hosted by Quebec Native Women with the support of Rights & Democracy […]

MONTREAL – Sep. 1st, 2005 – Rights & Democracy will undertake five case studies examining the effects of foreign direct investment on human rights in Argentina, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, Philippines and Tibet. The five case studies will form the basis of Rights & Democracy’s groundbreaking Human Rights Impact Assessment project, which aims […]

TUNIS, Sept 9, 2005 – International and Tunisian civil society organizations expressed their outrage today at the rapid deterioration of the human rights situation in Tunisia just two months prior to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in Tunis, November 15-18, 2005. After prohibiting the founding congress of the Tunisian […]

MONTREAL – Rights & Democracy is pleased to welcome Janice Stein as the new Chairperson of its Board of Directors and the appointments of Baha Abu-Laban and Peter Li as Members of the Board. Janice Stein is currently the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies and Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation […]

MONTREAL – Oct. 13, 2005 – Rights & Democracy was in Haiti this week to launch a project designed to foster greater civil society participation in the Haiti ’s national political process. The $415,000 project, which is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and Rights & Democracy, will support Haitian civil society organizations in […]

Oct. 24 is pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s 3,650th day under house arrest MONTREAL – Oct. 18, 2005 – Monday, Oct. 24, 2005 , is the 10 th year of pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s life under house arrest in Burma . To mark this somber milestone, Rights […]

MONTREAL – October 14, 2005 – Exactly one year ago, in the remote town of Kilwa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Army suppressed a small-scale rebellion by killing dozens of people. Anvil Mining Corporation, which is registered as a Canadian company on the Toronto Stock Exchange and operates the Dikulushi Mine nearby, admitted […]