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• Enabling Human Rights Commissions as Norms-Brokers

  By Pearl Eliadis on July 19, 2018

  

  Human rights commissions require an enabling environment, a concept that focuses on those external factors that permit institutions to thrive and to do their work freely and without undue pressure or interference. We need to reframe the role of human rights commissions as not only administrative bodies charged with preventing discrimination, but also as norms-brokers that can and must engage with a variety of different norms and systems in order to do their work properly.

• Independent International Experts (OAS) determines that major crimes against humanity have been committed in Venezuela

  By Pearl Eliadis on June 1, 2018

  

  Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights Founder and Chair, Irwin Cotler, along with Judge Santiago Canton (pictured above) from Argentina, and Judge Manuel Ventura from Costa Rica made up the International Panel of Experts set up by the OAS last… Read More ›

• Case Comment: Reparations for Death and Destruction in the Congo

  By Pearl Eliadis on February 5, 2018

  

      Summary: This case comment focuses on the types of reparations and their calculations that have been accepted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Trial Chamber II (“the Chamber”) of the ICC ordered both individual and collective reparations to the… Read More ›

• A guide to Bill 62

  By Pearl Eliadis on October 25, 2017

  Bill 62, which is now law,  has three central functions: it affirms the religious neutrality of the state, prohibits people from covering their faces when giving or receiving public services, and creates a legal framework for accommodating religious minorities. Its… Read More ›

• New Article in PKI Global Justice Blog: Forum non Conveniens and Liability for Alleged Human Rights Violations in Eritrea

  By Pearl Eliadis on September 20, 2017

  

  The following is an excerpt of the article published on July 31, 2017 in the PKI Global Justice Journal Nevsun Resources Ltd. In October 2016, the Supreme Court of British Columbia decided to exercise its jurisdiction to hear claims resulting… Read More ›

• Why the #Khadr settlement was the right thing to do #cdnpoli #humanrights

  By Pearl Eliadis on September 2, 2017

  

  The summertime leak and subsequent announcement of the Khadr settlement by the Liberal government continue to attract media attention. Concerted efforts by Christopher Speer’s widow to claim the settlement funds and the failed attempts by Canadian conservatives to make political… Read More ›

• Flexible work hours: rights, wrongs and history

  By Pearl Eliadis on September 1, 2017

  

  Employers are frequently asked about whether they are required to provide flexible working hours.  Generally speaking, accommodation requests based on things like health status (for persons with disabilities), family status (for example, four children or elderly parents who require care)… Read More ›

• What’s wrong with Quebec’s Bill 62

  By Pearl Eliadis on February 13, 2017

  

  N.B. This post was  prepared prior to the August 2017 amendments proposed by the Liberal Party of Quebec. As part of its campaign promises, Quebec’s Liberal Party had committed to a bill that would ensure the “neutrality” of the state… Read More ›

• Scorn for multiculturalism in Quebec yields troubling results

  By Pearl Eliadis on December 30, 2016

  It is well known that multiculturalism is verboten among Quebec’s political and chattering classes, regardless of partisan affiliation. However, to have multicult-phobia actually move a political party to reject a qualified candidate (who also happens to be a black woman) should tell us something about how pernicious the current ideology is.

• Can religious universities discriminate? TWU and #LGBTQ rights #canpoli

  By Pearl Eliadis on July 2, 2016

  LGBTQ rights and religious freedoms continue to collide in Canadian law. On June 29 2016, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its much-anticipated decision in Trinity Western University v. The Law Society of Upper Canada, 2016 ONCA 518. Trinity Western… Read More ›

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