Three law professors note International Court of Justice ruling means it would be illegal for Canada to export arms to Israel

Excerpt from Ruling by UN’s top court means Canada and the U.S. could be complicit in Gaza genocide (The Conversation, January 28, 2024). Photo: Heidi Matthews, Faisal A. Bhabha, Mohammad Fadel. Heidi Matthews, Assistant Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Faisal A. Bhabha, Associate Professor of Law, Read more…

CBC News obtains RCMP C-IRG video of the arrests of Indigenous land defenders on Wet’suwet’en territory in November 2021

CBC News reports that it has obtained Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) video footage that shows the arrests at a blockade of work on the Coastal Gaslink fracked gas pipeline on November 19, 2021. That police video can be seen at Police footage shows arrests at Read more…

International Court of Justice delivers interim ruling, calls on Israel to take all measures to prevent genocide in Gaza

Photo: Image from BBC video of today’s ICJ ruling. The Guardian reports: “[International Court of Justice president] Judge [Joan E.] Donoghue says the court has decided that Israel must ‘take all measures within its its power’ to prevent all acts within the scope of the genocide convention. She says it must ensure Read more…

Twelve concerning things we learned about the RCMP C-IRG during the first week of the abuse of process hearing

Dramatic Video Shows Militarized Canadian Police Raid Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders & Journalists (Democracy Now!, November 24, 2021). An abuse of process application was heard in a courtroom in Smithers, British Columbia this past week (January 12-19) that alleges the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) used excessive force Read more…

PBI-Colombia accompanied NOMADESC calls for protection measures after attack on Bahía Málaga in the rural area of Buenaventura

Photo: Mangaña is a community of 21 families located in Bahía Málaga (Valle del Cauca). On January 23, PBI-Colombia retweeted this post from the Association for Social Research and Action (NOMADESC): “#SOS We reject all violent actions and REQUEST @CorteIDH [Inter-American Court of Human Rights] to attend to the precautionary Read more…