human rights

When Sarah Zouak decided to write her master's thesis on Muslim feminism, she remembers her professor telling her to choose one topic or the other because Islam and feminism are incompatible.

B.C. First Nations appear poised to start taking back care of their own children, using their own culture and laws, as the number of Indigenous kids in foster care across Canada has reached crisis proportions.

“This is a striking example of a system built on colonial views perpetuating historical harm against Indigenous peoples, and all justified under policy,” reads the ruling, the fifth legal order against the government on the issue.

Thousands of Canadian women looked to the future while acknowledging the past on Saturday, January 20, 2018, as they took to the streets for a second co-ordinated round of protest marches.

Canada's new human rights watchdog is charged with investigating allegations of abuse tied to Canadian corporate activities abroad, says International Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne on Wednesday.

Imagine living your entire life as a Canadian, but then suddenly finding out you’re not actually a citizen. Consider what it would be like to grow up in Canada, with Canadian parents, but then have a baby in another country and discover your child is not entitled to Canadian citizenship.

Many, many countries with far fewer resources and far less wealth have accepted more of those in need than Canada. We can do better.

Cecilia Rojas, a resident of the small Panamanian village of Coclesito, is angry. She wants her cash, and she wants it now.

The Liberal government's ill-defined plan to give Canada's cyberspy agency wide-ranging powers to go on the attack against threats could trample civil liberties, warns a newly released analysis.

"It was wonderful," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week in Beijing as he recalled his first adult excursion to the country. He'd been to China before, of course — as a child, with his father visiting on official political business — but this trip was different.

For human rights defenders putting their lives on the line in Guatemala, justice could hinge on an unfulfilled election promise of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Canada and Quebec should look at their own records before "giving lessons" to other jurisdictions about human rights, Julie Miville-Dechêne, Quebec’s newly-appointed international envoy for human rights, told an international conference in Montreal.

Trade and human rights are among the topics Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intends to raise during a visit to China next month.

Members of Canada's Zimbabwean community say they're hopeful unfolding political turmoil in their homeland will bring about lasting change.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists he will not be pressed into signing an updated Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty too hastily, even if some of Canada's partners are keen to secure a quick agreement.