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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

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 the Syrian government. The hearing was clinical, heavy with legalese. It was not attended by any representatives of Syria. Yet it seems to […]

By Lucy Gaynor (for Justice Info)

Canada's Indigenous people in the Vatican

Pope offers Church's 'apology' to Canada's indigenous people

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

Indigenous ceremony near the graves of children who were victims of Canadian residential schools during the colonial era

Canada’s reckoning with colonial violence

In Canada, tombs of indigenous children shake national conscience

Marie Wilson: “It is too early to say Canada had great success with the Truth Commission”

Canada: A “year of inaction” on genocide of indigenous women

Canada’s Indigenous children and the price of reconciliation

Jean-Pierre Massias: “The Canadian commission is a new model for transitional justice”

Canada’s genocide of Indigenous peoples: Time for decolonisation

A controversial genocide against Canadian indigenous women

Nation-to-Nation Reconciliation in Canada

Canada schooling was "cultural genocide"