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Metro News covers IHRP Grant from Elton John AIDS Foundation

Monday, January 19, 2015

19 January 2015 - Toronto commuters learned more about the IHRP's work to advocate for migrants wtih HIV in today's issue of Metro News.  Metro is the GTA's second-largest circulation newspaper.

Elton John AIDS Foundation supports the International Human Rights Program’s project investigating the negative impact of Canada’s policies on refugees with HIV

Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Elton John and David Furnish at EJAF event
The International Human Rights Program (IHRP) has received a $75,000 grant from the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) to launch a project exposing the negative impact of Canada’s refugee policies on some of the world’s most vulnerable claimants—people with HIV or at-risk of HIV due to rampant violence, discrimination based on sexual orientation, and gender-based violence.

IHRP argues that Amazonian villagers deserve justice before Canada's Supreme Court

Friday, December 12, 2014

IHRP Legal Team12 December 2014 - Yesterday, the IHRP, along with its partners MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (the “Joint Interveners”), made submissions before the Supreme Court of Canada in Yaiguaje v.

IHRP Director Mandhane quoted in the Guardian re Nevsun Lawsuit

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

10 December 2014 - Today, IHRP Director, Renu Mandhane, was quoted in the Guardian about the latest lawsuit against a Canadian mining company alleging human rights abuses committed abroad.

Read the IHRP's December Community Newsletter

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

10 December 2014 - Read the IHRP's December community listserv message to celebrate International Human Rights Day!

IHRP will present oral arguments before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Chevron case

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

26 November 2014 - The IHRP learned today that it, along with its partners the Canadian Centre for International Justice and MiningWatch Canada, have been granted permission to present oral argument before the Supreme Court of Canada in Yaiguaje v. Chevron.  The IHRP will be represented by a team of UofT alumni, Murray Klippenstein, Cory Wanless, and IHRP director, Renu Mandhane.  IHRP clinic students Alison Mintoff and James Rendell provided invaluable research on this file and will be in attendance at the Court.

Mandhane op-ed in Globe and Mail: Access to Information Search Fees a Violation of Freedom of Expression

Thursday, November 13, 2014

13 November 2014 - Today, the Globe and Mail has published an op-ed by IHRP Director, Renu Mandhane, on unreasonable search fees when attempting to access Canadian government documents.  She argues that such fees are a violation of the right to freedom of expression guaranteed in international law.  The op-ed was republished in the Huffington Post.

Mandhane discusses Kazemi decision with Al Jazeera

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

22 October 2014 - In a feature published today by Al Jazeera, IHRP director Mandhane discusses the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Kazemi: "In the end, the direction from the court was to go back to parliament to amend the SIA [State Immunity Act], and I really do hope that this decision will mobilise Canadians." Read the full Al Jazeera story.

Globe and Mail profiles IHRP intervention in Chevron case

Monday, October 20, 2014

20 October 2014 - The Globe and Mail today published an article profiling the IHRP, MiningWatch Canada, and Canadian Centre for International Justice's intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Chevron case.  IHRP Director Mandhane is quoted as to the significance of the case: "“I think more and more the courts are going to have to grapple with this transnational world, where citizens and corporations are working and travelling all over the place, and how is Canada going to deal with that when things go badly,” she said in an interview.

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