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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), at the request of the Netherlands and Canada, examines systematic torture in Syria
The law and the spectacle of the law
20 October 2023 by Lucy Gaynor
On 10 October, Canada and the Netherlands appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, applying for ‘provisional measures’ to prevent ongoing, systematic, entrenched torture practices being committed by t [...]
Canada's Indigenous people in the Vatican Pope offers Church's 'apology' to Canada's indigenous people
1 April 2022 by AFP
Pope Francis apologised, on Friday 1st of April, to Indigenous people for abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada. The long-awaited apology comes almost a year after the discovery of unmarked graves at the site [...]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chief Cadmus Delorme and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe stand for a photograph with residential school survivors following a ceremony at the site of a former residential school in Cowessess First Nation, Sask, July 6, 2021. Justice for Cultural Harms? Lessons from Canada
16 November 2021 by Chandni Dhingra
The recent discovery of anonymous graves at former Canadian residential schools has reopened the debate on the response to redress for crimes against indigenous peoples. The various transitional justice mechanisms that have been p [...]
Indigenous ceremony near the graves of children who were victims of Canadian residential schools during the colonial era Canada’s reckoning with colonial violence
29 July 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Over the past few months, several mass and unmarked graves have been identified near former residential schools for indigenous children in Canada. Such institutions were created with the explicit objective of removing children fro [...]
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29 July 2021 by Pascale Guéricolas
In Canada, tombs of indigenous children shake national conscience In the last two months, Canadians have been rediscovering with shock the details of a violent past. Over more than a century, many indigenous children died in residential schools where they were forced to go for their education. T [...]
21 September 2020 by Marie-Laure Josselin
Marie Wilson: “It is too early to say Canada had great success with the Truth Commission” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Marie Wilson Former Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada The Canadian government has just put residential schools on the official list of national historic events. F [...]
12 June 2020 by Marie-Laure Josselin
Canada: A “year of inaction” on genocide of indigenous women It was a shock on 3 June 2019 when Canada's National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls pointed to an ongoing genocide of indigenous people as being at the root of these specific violations. A year on, the [...]
20 February 2020 by Marie-Laure Josselin
Canada’s Indigenous children and the price of reconciliation More than four years after the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in which child welfare was a key point, Canada’s government is reluctant to pay for Indigenous victims of decades-long policies affecting children. [...]
23 July 2019 by Franck Petit
Jean-Pierre Massias: “The Canadian commission is a new model for transitional justice” JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Jean-Pierre Massias Professor of public law at the University of Pau and president of the Institut francophone pour la justice et la démocratie Indigenous peoples' access to transitional justice [...]
1 July 2019 by Fannie Lafontaine, Amanda Ghahremani and Catherine Savard
Canada’s genocide of Indigenous peoples: Time for decolonisation On June 3, 2019, after three years of hearing thousands of stories of systemic and structural violence, Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Canad [...]
3 June 2019 by AFP
A controversial genocide against Canadian indigenous women A report released on June 3 describes as "genocide" the deaths of more than 1200 indigenous women murdered or disappeared in Canada between 1980 and 2012. The Canadian Prime Minister accepted the conclusions of this report, which [...]
14 November 2016 by Michele Krech
Nation-to-Nation Reconciliation in Canada For over a century, Indigenous children in Canada were separated from their families, communities and cultures to attend government-funded, church-run residential schools, in a concerted effort to assimilate them into mainstream C [...]
2 June 2015 by AFP
Canada schooling was "cultural genocide" The schooling of aboriginal children in Canada was an attempt at "cultural genocide," the nation's grand chief said Monday ahead of the release of a report detailing abuses at the church-run institutions. Assembly of First Nations [...]