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Recent Posts- Press Release: CCLA to Address Toronto Catholic District School Board on Proposed Motion to Ban Gay-Straight Alliances in Schools
May 23, 2013
Media contact:
Noa Mendelsohn Aviv
647-780-9802
mendelsohnaviv@ccla.org
www.ccla.org
Canadian Civil Liberties Association to Address Toronto Catholic District School Board on Proposed Motion to Ban Gay-Straight Alliances in Schools
MAY 23, 2013...
Categories: Announcements,Equality,Freedom of Assembly,Freedom of Expression,LGBT,News Highlights,Press releases
- Update on the Ashley Smith Inquest – May 2013
May 21, 2013
Ashley Smith died tragically at the age of 19 inside her prison cell after tying a ligature around her neck, while prison guards – instructed...
Categories: Activities,Discrimination,Equality,Gender,Liberty and Due Process,News Highlights,Youth
- May 2013 E-bulletin
May 3, 2013
Dear CCLA supporters,
Welcome to the May edition of the CCLA e-bulletin. In this month’s edition, we first want to invite you to our Celebrating Canada...
Categories: e-bulletins,Multimedia and Features
- LIVE BLOG: From local to international, Challenging Canada’s human rights record at the UN
Apr 29, 2013
Can’t make it to our “From Local to International: Challenging Canada’s Human Rights Record at the UN” event? We’ll be live blogging the event today –...
Categories: Activities,Charter Rights,Discrimination,Equality,Multimedia and Features,National Security,News Highlights,Public Safety
- Canada’s Universal Periodic Review
Apr 25, 2013
On April 26 Canada will undergo its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a unique global accountability process that allows all members of the UN Human...
Categories: Activities,Announcements,National Security,News Highlights,Op-Ed
Features
Press release – New CCLA Report: Police Background Checks That Include Non-Conviction Records Undermine the Presumption of Innocence
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media contact:
Penelope Chester
647.822.8764
media@ccla.org
www.ccla.org
New CCLA Report: Police Background Checks That Include Non-Conviction Records Undermine the Presumption of Innocence
Toronto – September 17, 2012 – The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has released a new report entitled Presumption of Guilt? The Disclosure of Non-Conviction Records in Police Background Checks. The report sheds light on the impact [...]
Canada’s Universal Periodic Review
On April 26 Canada will undergo its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a unique global accountability process that allows all members of the UN Human Rights Council to review Canada’s compliance with international human rights law. CCLA believes this is an important process and was pleased to participate in a pre-session with states allowing us [...]
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Multimedia
AUDIO: CCLA’s NGO Report To The UN For Canada’s 2nd UPR Review
CCLA’s Sukanya Pillay, Director of the National Security Program, speaks to RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda about CCLA’s recent report to the UN – the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers, the right to peaceful protest, and the number of Aboriginal women in Canadian prisons, are some of the issues raised by CCLA as part [...]
CCLA Holds Conference Assessing Global Counter-Terror Initiatives
On Friday, October 19th, 2012, nearly 100 attendees gathered at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law for a one day symposium entitled “The Social Cost of National Security: Assessing the Impact of Global Counter-Terror Initiatives on Canadian Society”. The conference was a partnership between the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Arab Institute [...]
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