IHRP Reports and Pleadings

Please Note: These resources were prepared by law students; they are not exhaustive, nor are they updated on a regular basis. The information provided here is not a substitute for legal advice or legal assistance, and the International Human Rights program at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law cannot provide such advice or assistance.

Latest Reports and Pleadings

• Complaint to the National Contact Point of Canada under the Specific Instance Procedure of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct (Joint Submission by EarthRights International, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), and an impacted community member) (2026)

• Upholding Indigenous Rights in the Era of Critical Minerals: A Human Rights Analysis of the Ring of Fire (Joint publication by IHRP and the Anishnawbe Business Professional Association (ABPA) (2026)

• Request to the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) to Investigate Material Misrepresentations and Failure to Disclose Material Information (2026)

• Request for Precautionary Measures on behalf of Bay Mills Indian Community, Little Traverse Bay Band, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and Little River Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians to the IACHR (2026)

• Complaint to the to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) on the use of prison and/or forced labour in the supply chains of Hyundai and Dorsey Trailer (2026)

• Gender Injustice in Afghanistan and Canada’s Responsibilities (Gender Justice in Afghanistan IHRP Working Group Report) (2026)

• Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples addressing Indigenous land and territorial rights violations tied to Canadian mining in Brazil (Joint Submission by the IHRP, CLIHHR, PPGD/UFRGS, and ODSDH/UFAM) (2026)

• Exporting Violence: Canada’s Arms Transfers and the Devastation of Civil and Political Rights in Gaza (Shadow report to the Human Rights Committee) (2026)

• Submission to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (Joint Submission by the IHRP, CLIHHR, PPGD/UFRGS, and ODSDH/UFAM)(2025)

• Resistance: Mura Struggle Against Canadian Potash Mining in Brazil’s Amazon (Joint Submission by the IHRP, CLIHHR, PPGD/UFRGS, and ODSDH/UFAM) (2025)

• Exports & Exploitation: US Prison Labour Hidden in Canadian Supply Chains (2025)

• Report on the Obligations of Canada in Respect of Climate Change (Joint Submission by the IHRP and Greenpeace Canada to the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion) (2024)

• Petition to the Honourable Members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Organization of American States, Request by Petitioners Hoffmann, "S.A." and "D.H." For a Decision Recommending Repeal of Sections 9 and 12 of Barbados' Sexual Offences Act (June 6, 2018)

• Rights Violations Associated with Canada's treatment of Vulnerable Persons in Immigration Detention (UPR Joint submission by IHRP, Amnesty International, Justice for Children and Youth, CARL, CCLA, BCCLA, RLO) (2018)

• Report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Joint submission by IHRP, EarthRights International and Mining Watch Canada) (2017)

• HRW Submission to the Government of Canada on Police Abuse of Indigenous Women in Saskatchewan and Failures to Protect Indigenous Women from Violence (June 19, 2017)

• PEN International, PEN Guatemala, PEN Canada and the IHRP Contribution to the 28th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review, Submission on Guatemala (March 30, 2017)

• Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, A/HRC/34/51 (2017)

• Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention (2017)

• ‘No Life for a Child’: A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention of Children and Family Separation (2016)

• Fearful Silence: The Chill on India's Public Sphere (2016)

• PEN International, PEN Canada and the IHRP Contribution to the 27th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review, Submission on the Republic of India (September 22, 2016)

• PEN International, PEN Canada and the IHRP Contribution to the 27th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review, Submission on Brazil (September 21, 2016)

Amicus interventions in Domestic Courts

• Yaiguaje v. Chevron - Right to an effective remedy for human rights violations committed by transnational corporations (2014)

• Kazemi, et al. v. The Islamic Republic of Iran, et al. - Right to a meaningful remedy for human rights violations (2013)

• Ezokola v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - Refugee Exclusion Provision (2012)

• Interventions in Khadr appeals before the Supreme Court of Canada (2008/2009)

• Charkaoui v. Canada – Challenge to the Canadian Security Certificate Regime (2006)

• Regina v. Mugesera – Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity

Human Rights Investigation and Reporting

• Complaint filed with Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE | OCRE) against Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. (2024)

• Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention (2017)

• Fearful Silence: The Chill on India's Public Sphere (2016)

• "We Have No Rights": Arbitrary Imprisonment and Cruel Treatment of Migrants with Mental Health Issues in Canada (2015)

• Imposing Silence: The Use of Law to Supress Free Speech in India (2015)

• Honduras: Journalism in the Shadow of Impunity (2014)

• A Girl's Rights to Learn without Fear (2012)

• Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading? Canada's Treatment of Federally-Sentenced Women with Mental Health Issues  (2012)

• Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico's Journalists (2011)

• Presumed Innocent, Behind Bars: The Problem of Pre-trial Detention in Uganda (2011)

• The eviction at Mufulira by First Quantum Minerals/ Mopani Copper Mines 

Advocacy in International Fora

• PEN Hong Kong, PEN International, PEN Canada, the University of Hong Kong Centre for Comparative and Public Law, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law International Human Rights Program, 2018 Universal Periodic Review Submission on the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong Regarding Freedom of Expression (2018)

• Rights Violations Associated with Canada's treatment of Vulnerable Persons in Immigration Detention (UPR Joint submission by IHRP, Amnesty International, Justice for Children and Youth, CARL, CCLA, BCCLA, RLO) (2017)

• PEN International, PEN Guatemala, PEN Canada and the IHRP Contribution to the 28th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review, Submission on Guatemala (March 30, 2017)

• PEN International, PEN Canada and the IHRP Contribution to the 27th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review, Submission on Brazil (September 21, 2016)

• Goven v. Canada - Petition to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (2014)

• Seeking Redress for Historic Rights Violations against Chinese-Candians (2013)
  

• The Prosecutor v. Sam Hinga Norman – Protecting Children’s Rights before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2003)

Legislative and Policy Change

• African Grandmother's Tribunal: Seeking Justice at the Frontlines of the AIDS Crisis (2013)

• GoldCorp Human Rights and CSR Policies (2011)

• Educating New Immigrants about their Rights (2008)

• Umuchinshi Recommendations to NRCSR 

• Proposed Amendments to Canada’s State Immunity Act

Training Materials, Database Creation

• Understand the Right to Freedom of Expression: An International Law Primer for Journalists (2015) 

• Guide for Potential Amici in International Investment Arbitration (2014)

• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Resources (2015)

• Women’s Human Rights Resources (2015)

• Database of Domestic Legislation Protecting LGBT Human Rights (2013) 
  

• 3 to be free curriculum (2010)

• On Disputed Ground: A Community User's Guide to the Review Process of the Office of the Extractive Sector CSR Counsellor (Canada)

Miscellaneous Research

• Recommendations re: Sexual Violence in Libya and Syria (2013), related academic scholarship (2014)

• Universal Jurisdiction Memos (2012)

• State Recognition of Indigenous Governance (2011)

• The Right to an Effective Remedy under Article XVIII of the American Declaration (2011)

• Humanitarian Law and Gender-Based Violence