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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. 

Application Deadline for International Human Rights Clinic Course

Friday, June 23, 2023

Attention upper year JD students and LLM/SJD students at U of T Law!

Re: Applications for the International Human Rights Clinic Course: International Human Rights Program 

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the introduction of a new course for the upcoming fall term—the International Human Rights Clinic Course (LAW548H1F). This course is open to all 2L, 3L, and LLM/SJD students.

Has the Human Rights Movement Failed? IHRP director Sandra Wisner joins The Agenda debate

Friday, February 17, 2023

Photo Sandra Wisner, IHRP director via Twitter

Has the Human Rights Movement Failed?

"Are world leaders increasingly turning a blind eye to violations of human rights? Why has leadership on this issue become so ineffective over the years?"

New IHRP Report: The Problematic Legality of Tear Gas Under International Human Rights Law

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Tear gas should be banned under international human rights law

The use of tear gas is rightfully banned in warfare, and should equally be banned as a riot control agent in law enforcement contexts

(Toronto, September 3, 2020) — The use of tear gas - particularly CS gas - as a riot control agent, cannot be reconciled with respect for fundamental human rights and should therefore be banned entirely in international law, the University of Toronto’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP) said in a report released today.

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