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Torturing Afghan Prisoners: Blind and Dangerous

As most (Canadian) readers are probably aware by now (American readers will probably still be interested), yesterday, a senior Canadian diplomat, Richard Colvin, testified to Members of Parliament that Canadian soldiers regularly detained innocent Afghan citizens and then handed them over to Afghan authorities who they knew would torture them. In short, the Canadian government [...]

Two More Examples of Why Your Canadian Citizenship Means Nothing

A reader from the other week’s post on Why Your Canadian Citizenship Means Nothing linked to this story in the Toronto Star.
Apparently another Canadian, Suaad Mohamud Haj, who is of Somali descent has been trapped in a foreign land. However, this time around it was Canadian officials who stripped her of her passport effectively stranding [...]

¶ Posted 12 August 2009 | David Eaves § canadian foreign policy § canadian politics ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: Abdelrazi, Arar, canadian foreign policy, due process, passport, Suaad Mohamud Haj, travel, Zahra Kazemi

Your Canadian citizenship means nothing

There have, in the past few years, been some very disturbing trends around the state of Canadians rights.
The first assault was very direct. The current conservative government has made it law that children to Canadians who were themselves were born outside the country will not be Canadian. So, if you happen to be on vacation, [...]

¶ Posted 30 July 2009 | David Eaves § canadian foreign policy § canadian politics ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: Abdelrazi, canadian foreign policy, due process, foreign policy, travel

Application: Witness’ Video Advocacy Institute

Fellow Sauve Scholar Paul Shore, who is deeply interested in how people can use video and the internet to help achieve social justice gave me the heads up about this cool sounding opportunity: The WITNESS Video Advocacy Institute (VAI). The VAI is an intensive program that trains human rights defenders to successfully integrate video advocacy [...]