human rights

Ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing, literary luminaries such as Margaret Atwood and Philip Roth are calling on China to free the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Indigenous drug users in British Columbia are 13 times more likely to die compared with other Canadians of the same age, says a decade-long study calling for cultural connections as a path to healing deep-rooted pain.

Canada is taking aim at corruption and rights abuses in Russia, Venezuela and South Sudan by imposing targeted sanctions on 52 individuals, including Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

An Ontario family has launched a human rights complaint against a school board in an effort to get a popular form of therapy for autistic children provided to their son in class.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the brightest stage in international politics to shine a light on the darkest corners of Canada's story on Thursday.

With so many humanitarian crises in the world, it's on everyone to educate themselves and continue pushing for democracy and human rights, Angelina Jolie told a Toronto conference focusing on women.

British Columbia stands at a crossroads as it considers whether we will continue down the path to a dubiously lucrative LNG industry. Do we know who are business partners really are?

Carla Qualtrough wanted to go water skiing. There was no question in her mind that, despite having a visual impairment, she'd be able to accomplish her goal — but she knew it would take creativity.

Lawyers for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr are to appear in an Edmonton court today, Aug. 31, 2017, seeking to ease his bail restrictions and grant him unsupervised visits with his sister.

Chrystia Freeland says she's "deeply concerned" about recent videos which appear to show Canadian-made armoured vehicles being used by Saudi Arabia in a crackdown against its own citizens.

The basic necessities of health, well-being and life shouldn’t be subject to the shifting agendas of political parties, writes celebrated scientist and TV show host David Suzuki.

Canada's minister of Indigenous Affairs says she understands some families of missing and murdered aboriginal women are still frustrated about the pace of a national inquiry.

The envoy levelled the accusations during a lengthy interview at the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa with The Canadian Press.

Franklin Njomo spent the early part of his life advocating for human rights in Cameroon, and fled to Canada to seek refugee status after being jailed and tortured as a result.

Toiling at the heart of the Taliban insurgency offered Lamarre a brief respite from the emotional war that had been raging inside him since childhood. Here, he needed only one label: soldier.