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On Monday May 21, 2012 and Tuesday May 22, 2012, Canada will be appearing before the UN Committee Against Torture. Canada will engage in a constructive dialogue with Committee Members, regarding Canada’s implementation of, and compliance with, the UN Convention Against Torture. To watch Canada’s appearance before the UN Committee Against Torture LIVE click here http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/ Canada [...] Geneva: The Canadian Civil Liberties Association today made a presentation to members of the UN Committee Against Torture, at the United Nations Palais Wilson in Geneva. The Committee is comprised of ten legal experts from around the world, charged with overseeing how State Parties implement the Convention at home. CCLA presented highlights from our report to [...] “There is a song by Jean-Pierre Ferland that romanticizes that it is at 30 that women are beautiful. Before, so the rhyming goes, women are only pretty. Is the Charter beautiful at 30? Has its features grown harmoniously? Does it project an air of maturity without cynicism or a sense of capabilities without [...] Canada has publicly urged Iran not to execute 44 year-old Canadian-Iranian Hamid Ghassemi-Shall. Mr. Ghassemi-Shall is being held in the notorious Evin prison. While on a family visit to Iran in 2008, he was arrested by Iranian authorities and accused of being a spy. Since then, Mr. Ghassemi-Shall has been imprisoned and unable to return [...] The Canadian Press recently published a document obtained through an access to information request. The document is a Directive to CSIS, from the Minister of Public Safety, dated July 28, 2011, and deals with torture. The Directive, entitled “Information Sharing with Foreign Entities”, essentially permits two types of information sharing: (1) CSIS is permitted in certain circumstances to share [...] |
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