What’s New
• Check out our 2025 Call for Submissions to pitch an article for the CLAIHR Human Rights Blog.
• Read our 2024 Annual Report!
• CLAIHR appeals to UN, IACHR Rapporteurs on repression of pro-Palestinian speech – for more see here.
• Read our shadow report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women for Canada’s periodic review in October 2024
• We’re suing the federal government over illegal arms exports to Israel. Read more about the case here.
• CLAIHR, Al-Haq – Law in the Service of Man, Ayman Oweida and a confidential Palestinian asylum seeker joint letter to Federal Government on Arms Exports to Israel Violating Canadian and International Law
Climate Change Litigation in Canada
Corporations as Good Citizens: Can respect for human rights and the environment be good business?
Wednesday April 20, 2022 | 12.00 – 13.30 EDT
Please join Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) for a panel on Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) and other corporate responsibility initiatives. Is business that respects for human rights and the environment achievable within the framework of our current system of corporate economic organization? Or are the two fundamentally compatible? The discussion will be moderated by CLAIHR Board member Andrew Cleland, and featured guests will be Joel Bakan, Anita Dorett, Shin Imai, and Mónica Ospina.
This program is eligible for up to 1.5 substantive hours of Continuing Professional Development with the Law Society of Ontario.
To join the panel, please register in advance.
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Call for Submissions 2025: Write for the CLAIHR Blog
Are you an academic, professional, or student involved in human rights advocacy? Write for the […]
Coalition of Canadian Human Rights Lawyers Urges Canada to Suspend Existing Permits and Close All Loopholes in Arms Trade with Israel
On March 5, 2024, CLAIHR initiated legal proceedings together with Al-Haq – Law in the […]
Why Working to Uphold International Human Rights in Israel and Occupied Palestine is Important to Me
by Karen Segal
Today, CLAIHR has announced the formation of an ad hoc Working Group on the situation of human rights in Israel and Occupied Palestine.
The current moment highlights the necessity of this group. In addition to the 1,139 Israelis and nationals of other countries tragically killed by Hamas on October 7, Israel has killed 25,000 Palestinians in three months, including 160 children per day, and injured close to 61,000 more. At the same time, Israel has engaged in countless human rights abuses of Palestinians, such as deprivation of food, water, and energy, targeting civilian infrastructure such as schools and hospitals, targeting aid workers, health care workers and journalists, and using chemical weapons, and Hamas continues to hold Israeli civilians hostage. According to leading experts on the ground, the situation in Gaza is catastrophic and unprecedented.
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