If only he understood that the true peacemakers, peacebuilders and champions of peace in our world are not those who seek their own glory. They do not covet prizes. They yearn for one reward. Peace.
Trump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticizes Norway
President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’
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Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize celebrates a trailblazing, tireless woman of courage & conviction. And it sends a timely message that in our turbulent, divided & violent world, it is to human rights norms, global institutions of justice & core precepts of the rule of law that we must turn.
Hard to imagine this would actually go ahead, but Pete Hegseth's mere proposition of livestreaming a firing squad execution is grotesque and vile. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it," the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.
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Toronto friends. Hope to see you on October 15th as we mark the 35th anniversary of the tremendous, inspiring @fcjrefugeecentre.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy. I'll be the dinner speaker. Such a great opportunity to support a fantastic organization at such a critical time.
FCJ Refugee Centre 35th Anniversary Gala Dinner: Celebrate With Us!
Save the date and mark your calendar! We are celebrating our 35th anniversary this year, and the highlight will be a very special Gala Dinner you won't want to miss.This Gala will be both a celebratio...
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Ottawa friends, please join us on Oct 27. I will be in conversation with Monia Mazigh, as she relaunches an updated version of her book, Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband from a Black Site, w/ an expansive new foreword, reflecting on 25th anniversary of Sept 11 & all that has followed.
What will it take to #AbolishTheDeathPenalty? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
Christa Pike Is in Critical Condition as Tennessee Pauses Executions (Gift Article)
Gov. Bill Lee ordered a review of the state’s lethal injection process after the botched attempt to execute the lone woman on Tennessee’s death row.
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Today, I acknowledge that... 1/ I do not know enough. 2/ I do not understand enough. 3/ I have not done enough. 4/ I have not changed enough. I commit to listen better, do more, seek truth and embrace reconciliation. As must we all.
"Although earthquakes are an unavoidable tragedy, the human rights violations that result from them are preventable." #Venezuela
Venezuela: Three months after the two earthquakes, a human rights-centred response remains absent
Three months after the earthquakes in Venezuela, Amnesty International calls for recovery efforts to place the human rights and dignity of those affected at the centre.
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I stopped by @savethechildrencan.bsky.social's installation in downtown Ottawa to sign their #StopTheWarOnChildren petition. You can sign it at this link: www.savethechildren.ca/stop-the-war...
“ICE is fundamentally broken and cannot be fixed. For the U.S. government to have an immigration enforcement system that complies with international human rights law and standards, ICE needs to be abolished and we need to start over."
USA: Amnesty International Calls for ICE to Be Abolished After Documenting Widespread Human Rights Violations in Anti-Immigrant Operations
Amnesty International has documented serious human rights violations in ICE’s immigration operations and is calling for their immediate abolition.
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Terrifying instance of violent antisemitism. Chilling to think of what could have been. Solidarity to members of the synagogue, the Jewish community & people of Belleville. A reminder to us all to push back against hate, in its obvious & insidious forms, which is too often much closer than we know.
Belleville synagogue shooting was a ‘hate-motivated’ crime, police say
Shooter’s motive of targeting the Jewish community was ‘corroborated in documentary and video evidence,’ Ontario city’s police chief says
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Next Thursday, we look forward to hosting our yearly event with Canadian Leadership for Nuclear Disarmament, where they present their Annual Achievement Award. This year's recipient is Robin Collins! 🏅 @alexneve.bsky.social Be sure to register! >>> bit.ly/4cnkoGr
Very much appreciate the strong civil society support for renewal of the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on #Venezuela. It is such a crucial time in the country, and the need for a meaningful, priority focus on human rights has never been greater, nor more opportune.
Venezuela: Civil Society Organizations call for the renewal of Key UN Fact-Finding Mission
In a joint statement, civil society organizations are calling for the renewal of the mandate of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela (FFM).
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I’ll aways remember 9/11. Those surreal first few hours. I know exactly where I was and who I was with. And how we reacted or struggled to react. So much disbelief and fear; so much unknown. Such staggering, hateful violence. So close to home. 1/5
🏅This year's recipient of the 2026 Annual Achievement Award from Canadian Leadership for Nuclear Disarmament is Robin Collins! Join us October 1st as he receives his award and gives a lecture titled "How Optimists Triumph and Change Happens". @alexneve.bsky.social >>> bit.ly/4cnkoGr
This pales in the face of enabling genocide, brutalizing migrants, tearing up international law, turning back climate action, and spewing hate. This is juvenile, mean-spirited petulance. Still, how can any American, whatever their politics, look at this & not cower with embarrassment.
'Real foolishness': Canadian officials reject Trump attempt to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" as tensions with Canada worsen.
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"In failing to stand up for the ICC, Canada is failing to stand up for itself. It also risks continuing to, as Mr. Carney denounced in his Davos speech, engage in the 'performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.'" My latest @theglobeandmail.com: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Failing to fulfill ICC warrants is also a failure to defend Canada’s sovereignty
Israeli Prime Minister has been able to enter Canadian airspace, despite Mark Carney’s statements that Ottawa would enforce a warrant for his arrest
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By allowing these unprecedented phone calls to their families, Iraqi authorities are making it clear they want foreign national prisoners to be repatriated to their home countries. That includes Canada @mark-carney.bsky.social , @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social & Gary Anandasangaree.
Jack Letts appeals for repatriations from Iraq in 'out of the blue' phone call to parents
British-born Canadian man, who spoke to his parents for the first time in almost a decade, is among thousands of detainees transferred from Syria to Iraq earlier this year
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Shooting into tents w/ arbitrarily detained women and children huddling inside is a sick criminal act. It is long past time that Canada repatriate remaining Canadian children, grant permits to their mothers, and bring home illegally detained Canadians from Iraq. www.middleeasteye.net/news/they-al...
'They almost killed my child': Women in Syria's Roj camp describe night of gunfire and fear
Women detained in northeast Syria's Roj camp say bullets tore through tents housing children during a confrontation with Kurdish-led security forces
middleeasteye.net
Friends, @leilanifarha.bsky.social's Massey Lectures this fall are going to be stupendous. If you can make it to any of the venues - Toronto, Halifax, Yellowknife, Vancouver, Ottawa - you need to be in the audience. Get your ticket(s) now, during the presale before July 13, & receive a 20% discount.
How to get tickets to Leilani Farha’s CBC Massey Lectures | CBC Radio
If you live in Toronto, Halifax, Yellowknife, Vancouver or Ottawa, the CBC Massey Lectures are coming to your city. Join us for a live recording of Leilani Farha's Massey Lecture, Housing Inc.: A Glob...
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If you have been following the unrelenting attacks against the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' new exhibit, Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, do read this thoughtful opinion piece in the Globe and Mail from Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail Bakan.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibit can serve as a site for solidarity
Exhibit was product of deeply meaningful relationships between Palestinian, Jewish communities in Canada, and it can show how anti-racism can be achieved
theglobeandmail.com
Powerful, personal, from the ground reflections about the Venezuelan earthquakes from dear friend and colleague, @wola-org.bsky.social President @cjimenezdc.bsky.social: "This crisis is as much a tragedy of authoritarian rule as it is a tragedy of nature."
Opinion | I’m in Venezuela. Things Are Worse Than They Look.
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If you are feeling despair about human rights in this upside down, heaving world of ours, Dong Guangping will give you reason to hope and believe. Never give up.
Chinese dissident arrives in Canada after fleeing homeland by dinghy: ‘I knew I needed to keep going’
Dong Guangping landed in Toronto on Friday after a decade spent trying to flee China, where he faced repeated imprisonment for his human-rights activism
theglobeandmail.com
Even as the US threatens tariffs against Canada for forced labour in its supply chains, the US itself supplies Canada with goods made using forced labour in US prisons. We are taking action against Canadian companies who profit from this forced labour. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canadian lawyers urge crackdown over Alabama prison labour imports | CBC News
As Ottawa faces pressure from the Trump administration to tighten its scrutiny of imports made with forced labour, Canadian human rights lawyers are pointing the finger at companies south of the borde...
cbc.ca
Any suggestion by the government that the CORE was “ineffective” is beyond disingenuous. The shortcomings lie in the government’s failure/refusal for 7 years to grant the CORE the full investigative powers that had been promised at the outset.
Carney says feds are eliminating watchdog that oversees companies operating abroad | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is eliminating a watchdog position responsible for investigating allegations of human rights violations committed by Canadian companies operating abroad.
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Without justice, impunity carries the day, and rights protection remains tenous. We welcome this important step towards justice, something Venezuelans have been denied for many long years. #VZFFM @uninvhrc.bsky.social
Venezuela: UN Fact-Finding Mission FFM Welcomes Extradition Request Arising from Investigation into Venezuela 2014 crimes
PANAMA / GENEVA – The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela welcomes a major international judicial development: the first extradition request arising from an investigation into ...
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Gaza, DRC, Ukraine, Sudan, Haiti ... Around the world, children increasingly bear the brunt of a violent world in which fundamental rules around civilian protection are collapsing. Writing with @savethechildrencan.bsky.social's @dglenwright.bsky.social, we call on Canada to up its game & push back.
The War on Children Is Escalating. Where Is Canada’s Leadership on Human Rights? - Save the Children Canada
The humanitarian sector is at a defining moment. Needs are rising. Resources are tightening. Traditional delivery models are under strain.
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Get ready Canada. And beyond. Such a crucial conversation at such a critical time, with a truly brilliant human rights advocate. #HousingInc. Best Masseys ever! Can’t wait. @leilanifarha.bsky.social
The housing industry has become a new kind of empire, says 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer | CBC Radio
The 2026 Massey Lecturer is Leilani Farha. Her lectures are called Housing Inc: A Global Takeover and Our Fight for Home. Farha argues there's a fundamental conflict at the heart of our housing crisis...
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I've added my voice to this important campaign. "No people should ever be expected to trade away their human rights." But that is exactly what is being demanded of the people of Ecuador.
MiningWatch Canada@miningwatch.bsky.social · 5mo agoLeading civil society voices from across Canada are calling on the federal government to halt its proposed free trade agreement with Ecuador, which poses a serious risk to Indigenous rights, human rights, and the environment. miningwatch.ca/blog/2026/5/...
Amidst all the lawlessness, violence, repression & geopoliticking, a clarion call for justice for a courageous human rights champion whose conviction & struggle has inspired the world. #FreeNargesMohammadi
More than 110 Nobel laureates call on Iran to release gravely ill activist Narges Mohammadi
As human rights advocate is treated in hospital after transfer from Tehran prison, prize winners demand her freedom
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