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In the heart of Port-au-Prince, amidst the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Haiti, two determined lawyers, Atzer Alcindor and Jean Bonald Golinsky Fatal, who founded the Human Rights Laboratory, stand as beacons of hope.

Celine Isimbi empowers her fellow university students to link their concerns to climate justice.

Bill C-6 passed second reading in Parliament with a vote of 308-7, however, witnesses at a meeting of the House of Commons' committee on justice and human rights wrestled with its wording and what it should encompass.

As they struggle to police their own communities, Indigenous police forces say they've been "defunded" from the get-go.

A group of Black parliamentarians and their allies are calling on all levels of government to take action to reduce systemic racism in Canada.

Manitoba's advocate for youth says a lot more needs to be done if the government is to save children in care from the grim reality of an Indigenous teenage girl whose body was found in a river.

Andrew Scheer and Justin Trudeau fought on Wednesday, September 25, 2019, for the high ground on who was best suited to fight the ravages of climate change, a battle that exposed the wide valley in their approaches.

Hundreds of young Sikh men in India disappeared in a time of turmoil. One photojournalist captures the experiences of the families who still lack answers.

'We're not developing a strategy that's going to sit on a shelf somewhere," said lawyer Doug White, chair of the BC First Nation Justice Council. "We're developing a strategy that will be guiding the work of every single person in the criminal justice system in this province.'

Only once before in Canadian history — in 1906, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier appointed his justice minister to the top judicial job — has a prime minister chosen a chief justice who was not already sitting on the Supreme Court. Wilson-Raybould’s pick puzzled Trudeau but he became disturbed after doing some research into her choice’s views on the charter, sources said.

Four months before the not-guilty verdict in the killing of Colten Boushie ignited concern across Canada, a poll by Insights West indicated that half of Canadians believe the justice system has not done enough to address bias against Aboriginal Canadians.

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

A former judge who resigned over his treatment of a sexual assault complainant was making his case Tuesday for why he should be allowed to practise law again.

Making sure those who experience the biggest impacts of crime have the support they need would do a lot to speed up the wheels of justice, says the federal ombudsman for victims of crime.