IHRP News

A Monumental Year - 2024 IHRP Annual Report

Monday, April 7, 2025

A Monumental Year

After a truly monumental year of expanding the reach of international human rights work, both in Canada and beyond, I reflect with great pride on the IHRP’s tremendous impact in 2024.

UN Disability Rights Committee Slams ‘Deceptive’ Canada for Continued Arms Exports to Israel

Thursday, April 3, 2025

IHRP Clinic Student Rapaella Ayina Addresses the UN Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as IHRP Research Associate, Nabila Khan Looks On - March 10, 2025

 

IHRP, 70+ Organizations Ask UN Committee to Review the Impact of Canadian Arms Exports on the Rights of Palestinians with Disabilities

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

TORONTO, ON – A coalition of more than 70 disability rights, human rights, faith-based, labour, and other advocacy organizations are calling on a UN Committee to hold Canada accountable for the role Canadian arms exports to Israel play in enabling serious rights violations against Palestinians with disabilities in Gaza in Gaza and creating further acts and sites of disablement. 

IHRP Acting Director Testifies Before Senate Committee: Human Rights Impacts of Canadian Companies Operating in Africa

Thursday, December 5, 2024
James Yap testifying before Senate of Canada

IHRP Acting Director, James Yap, addressed Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, to testify on the human rights impacts of Canadian companies operating in Africa – and what Canada can do about it.